My supervisor and one of my coworkers are coldfusion (can’t remember which version number) developers. I’ve never worked in it, but I could easily see someone with experience in ASP.NET or one of the Java web technologies JSPs being able to understand at a high level coldfusion code and vice versa. It seems to prefer code being in the same page as the presentation (at least, from what I’ve seen them do), which may go against others, but seems to work out fine there.
Also, they can hammer out a solution to things pretty quickly with it. I don’t know if this is so much the language or the developer, but at a minimum it doesn’t appear to be a hindrance to development.
> It seems to prefer code being in the same page as the presentation
It's not so much as it's preferred, but rather that it's possible. In fact, because templates and business logic are really just the exact same language with different grammar, a CFML programmer may be passively incentivied to mash the two together because, well, what's the point of splitting it up anyway? If I'm just going to run these ten lines of code to acquire my data and run these ten lines of template to output my data, I might as well put these twenty lines next to each other into one file...at least for now. You can always split it up later if it becomes more complex, or if you want to take "proof of concept" code and refactor it in the house style.
If you want you can structure your programs with as much (or as little) buzzword compliance as you wish. There are numerous frameworks which help you structure your code, including a few that are quite similar to Ruby on Rails. CFML doesn't hold your hands and declare the one true correct way to structure your code properly, which is both a big strength and perhaps its biggest weakness.
yeah, I don't have a personal problem with the approach (followed by "which may go against others, but seems to work out fine there"), just that it deviates a hair there from what I've seen most try to push. But they're able to hammer something out pretty quickly (and most importantly, it works) taking that course so if it works for them I see no harm (it obviously isn't a hindrance in any particular measure that matters).
Also, they can hammer out a solution to things pretty quickly with it. I don’t know if this is so much the language or the developer, but at a minimum it doesn’t appear to be a hindrance to development.