mjprobst's Journal: ColdFusion, the Perl of Proprietary Programming Environments

ColdFusion is really annoying. We use it at work because there is lots of existing code in the health care industry that uses ColdFusion. It's much like Perl: everything _and_ the kitchen sink is included, it goes out of its way to match the lexical style of things familiar to programmers in this domain, yet in the end it is difficult to do serious work with it since there are so many incompatible ways to accomplish any given task.