CFML vs J

Get a web app up and running fast with stuff built right in to CFML! Frameworks make it even faster but lengthen the learning curve.

Newcomers can use an html-like syntax to query a database. Advanced developers can use a scripted syntax to execute stored procedures.

There are multiple engine implementations available including Adobe ColdFusion, Lucee, New Atlanta BlueDragon, Railo, and Open BlueDragon among others.

ColdFusion can quickly interact with PDFs , Spreadsheets to read/manipulate the data. There are a lot of built in functions to manipulate images quickly.

3 classes of operators (verbs, adverbs, and conjunctions) with verbs the most basic function that take either 1 or 2 (infix) parameters. Operators allow function composition with a minimum of parentheses.

J also supports multiline functional definitions similar to BASIC/Pascal. Including error handling.

Each built in operator is a C/asm function, and special code further optimizes some operator combinations. Result is optimized C speed from quick parsing. Array orientation parses and compiles a function once, and applies it to all array items.

Still actively developed, but most recent changes have been in libraries and IDE and platform support.
Language is considered "perfected"... though not quite.

Complete core programming functional tools allow writting programs and libraries without imports.

(... within each of the 3 operator classes) makes reading code easier. Very simple parsing rules.