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| ColdFusion is a tag based language similar to HTML, generally recognized to be fairly easy for people coming straight from HTML to learn. |
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| While ColdFusion is a programming language, many programmers (mistakenly) think of it more as a scripting language, due to its very simple tag-based syntax, (formerly) typeless variables and weak support for programming anything but web-based applications prior to version 6 (MX). In fact, this misconception (that ColdFusion is a scripting language) is so prevalent, that it often overshadows what ColdFusion really has become, namely, a productivity layer over raw J2EE or .NET development, more closely related to products in Bowstreet's portal development suite than a scripting language like VBA or Javascript. Imagine bits of Struts, Spring, Hibernate, JavaServer Faces, and various Apache components (XML-FOP, Commons, and a few other odds and ends) all rolled together, synthesized into a single coherent product, and you're getting close to what ColdFusion has evolved into. |
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