Hillenious on Framework Comparisons

I just read this blog from Eelco Hillenious about selecting frameworks for use in web application development.

He makes the comment that you shouldn't limit yourself to a specific language (i.e. ColdFusion), which I don't consider particularly relevant with regard to the frameworks comparison article I wrote this past few weeks. The purpose of my article was primarily to show people who are being indecisive about choosing a framework that the choice is much less important than the fact that they pick one and move forward, because, learning to use ANY framework will teach you some fundamentals about not just frameworks, but about programming in general (encapsulation, code reuse, etc) - the reasons why we have frameworks in the first place. To that end I wasn't really interested in convincing programmers who work with Java, Ruby or Python that they should use frameworks - my focus was on ColdFusion developers.

There are however still some useful and interesting thoughts on the subject of choosing frameworks and the psychology of programming in general. In particular I like that he points out the problem of making decisions about technologies on the basis of how effective their marketing has been.