Computing Atlas

How Computing Was Built
Sign In
Text size
100%
Theme
Programming Language

ColdFusion

Scripting Language

ColdFusion Markup Language, more commonly known as CFML, is a scripting language for web development that runs on the Java virtual machine (JVM), the .NET framework, and Google App Engine. Several commercial and free and open-source software implementations of CFML engines are available, including Adobe ColdFusion, Lucee, New Atlanta BlueDragon, Railo, Open BlueDragon, and other CFML server engines.

Facts
First Released
1995 1
Paradigm
Imperative, procedural, tag-based scripting 1
Significance
Popularized a tag-based scripting approach, CFML, that made it easy to connect ordinary HTML pages to a database in the mid-1990s web boom. 1
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Adobe ColdFusion
Wikimedia FoundationLead section
Quote, Lead section
Adobe ColdFusion is a commercial rapid web-application development computing platform created by J. J. Allaire in 1995.
View the Source
Comments (0)
No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.
Reader Challenges (0)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.