Positive Communication from Adobe regarding ColdFusion: more thoughts

G'day (again):
I'm following the comment thread on the "ColdFusion: News, Initiatives and Updates from Adobe" blog post on the Adobe blog that got posted a few days ago. I offered my first tranche of feedback a coupla days ago, and here's my second lot.

These are replies to people's comments, and some general thoughts. I'm posting them here rather than there because this is too long for a comment cluttering-up someone else's blog. I'll cross reference this article over there too though. Also I want to get this discussion on the radar of my readers too, in case they're not aware of it, or have not thought/bothered to follow it.

I've worked my way down the comments, and commented / responded as I go. It's a bit stream-of-consciousness.

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G'day:
It's been a quiet week on the blog front this week sorry... this is down to it being a pretty busy week in general for me.  Nothing exciting... just too much work, so little motivation to spend even more time in front of the screen when I get home.  And, to be frank, I've not been in the mood to write anything on the train in the morning either. This isn't for a lack of stuff to write, it's just what I've got in the list of things to write about takes research and... well... a bunch of actual work to get the thing ready.

So this is a bit of a filler article.

Which is better: having your methods inline in a CFC, or included from a separate file? (cont'ed)

This is just a reply to Henry, Shawn and Dave regarding my earlier posting on this topic, but as it's longer than 4kB, I cannot post it as a comment to the original post, so I'm creating a new one.

Hi guys. I didn't reply to the bulk of this last night cos I was watching a movie(*) and could multi-task enough to keep an eye on the #ColdFusion channel on Twitter, but not enough to give my reply to you the attention it warrants.

@Henry. Yeah, I too am let down by the lack of static methods in ColdFusion, and for the same reason. I have hit Adobe up about this a coupla times (for CF9 and for CF10), but I'm always swamped by colleagues saying it's to complicated to implement (this was not from Adobe, but a CF community member, so dunno if that has merit); most CF developers are too "junior" to understand what they are so it'd be wasted on them; you can work around it easy enough; ColdFusion is all about simplicity, and this concept is to complicated; and that old specious chestnut "if you want to use Java, use Java". Which is all a mix of faulty logic or is just plain facile. Still: the idea always garners this negative criticism, so I guess it didn't seem compelling to Adobe. Anyway: we are where we are... no static methods.