ColdFusion - Programming language

ColdFusion is an open source programming language created in 1995 by Joseph J. Allaire.

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Adobe ColdFusion is a commercial rapid web application development platform created by J. J. Allaire in 1995. Read more on Wikipedia...

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There are at least 20,756 ColdFusion repos on GitHub
Early development of ColdFusion happened in Adobe
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 1k users using ColdFusion in 2k repos on GitHub
Check out the 22 ColdFusion meetup groups on Meetup.com.
There are 10 Project Euler users using ColdFusion
Explore ColdFusion snippets on Rosetta Code
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for ColdFusion
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for ColdFusion
There is a central package repository for ColdFusion
See also: (23 related languages) Java, HTML, CFML, ASP, JSP, PHP, JavaScript, CFScript, SOAP, PDF, SMTP, FTP, XML, XPath, Solaris, Microsoft Excel, Linux, Eclipse, WSDL, JSON, Jython, Groovy, JRuby
4 PLDB concepts link to ColdFusion: Ace Editor, cloc, ColdFusion Components, Pygments

Example from hello-world:

<cfset message = "Hello World">
<cfoutput> #message#</cfoutput>

Example from the Hello World Collection:

<!---Hello world in ColdFusion--->

<cfset message = "Hello World">
<cfoutput> #message#</cfoutput>

Example from Linguist:

<!--- cfcomment --->
<!--- nested <!--- cfcomment ---> --->
<!--- multi-line
nested
<!---
cfcomment
--->
--->
<!-- html comment -->
<html>
<head>
<title>Date Functions</title>
</head>
<body>
<cfset RightNow = Now()>
<cfoutput>
 #RightNow#<br />
 #DateFormat(RightNow)#<br />
 #DateFormat(RightNow,"mm/dd/yy")#<br />
 #TimeFormat(RightNow)#<br />
 #TimeFormat(RightNow,"hh:mm tt")#<br />
 #IsDate(RightNow)#<br />
 #IsDate("January 31, 2007")#<br />
 #IsDate("foo")#<br />
 #DaysInMonth(RightNow)#
</cfoutput>
<cfset x="x">
<cfset y="y">
<cfset z="z">
<cfoutput group="x">
    #x#
    <cfoutput>#y#</cfoutput>
    #z#
</cfoutput>
</body>
</html>

<cfset person = "Paul">
<cfset greeting = "Hello #person#">

<cfset greeting = "Hello" & " world!">
<cfset a = 5>
<cfset b = 10>
<cfset c = a^b>
<cfset c = a MOD b>
<cfset c = a / b>
<cfset c = a * b>
<cfset c = a + b>
<cfset c = a - b>
<!--- <!-- another <!--- nested --> ---> comment --->

Example from Wikipedia:

http://path/to/components/Component.cfc?method=search&query=your+query&mode=strict

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Strings	✓	"Hello world"	"
Print() Debugging	✓		cfoutput
Comments	✓
Semantic Indentation	X