CFFrankenstein: Choosing to use EXEs instead of CFML BIFs

I &#x2a;&#x2a;choose&#x2a;&#x2a; to use a lot of third-party Windows command line programs as part of our ColdFusion&#x2f;CFML stack. Much of the functionality could be considered duplicated since official built-in functions &#x28;BIFs&#x29; already exist, but I perceive it as a &quot&#x3b;customer-controlled functions that always return reliable results regardless of CFML platform and&#x2f;or…