One of the primary selling points of the ColdFusion platform is the ease of
use of the language and the encapsulation of complex programming constructs
in easy-to-use tag syntax.
In many cases, you can accomplish programming tasks that would take many
lines of code in other languages in one or two lines of code in ColdFusion.
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It doesn't get any easier than that. The platform's concept of encapsulating
complex constructs in a simple tag-based language has held up remarkably well
in most areas. In one important and growing field- Web services- the model
has not been as successful as in other areas. In part, this limited success
has to do with the inherent complexity of web services and the difficulty... (more)