So, according to Macromedia, Coldfusion will increase your productivity when compared to PHP!

This article is just too ridiculous. It takes a bunch of really bad examples of PHP code, and shows how well-written Coldfusion code is shorter, cleaner, and easier to read. Classic straw-man arguments. For instance, he uses the example of sending mail, and pulls out a twelve-line piece of code just to send a piece of mail in PHP, and compares it to a four-line bit of Coldfusion code. But the PHP code is strung together in a messy way which could have been written to be just as quick and simple as the same function was in Coldfusion. He then goes on to explain conditional includes with a bunch of code that could be written much more cleanly in PHP while implying that it’s not even possible to do in PHP. It’s just too much.

Remind me again why anyone would want to use Coldfusion to program web sites? I guess they must be getting pretty desperate for reasons when they have to pull out junk like that.