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Cold Fusion programming language

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Cold Fusion is a tag based language similar to PHP. Alliare (Ben Forta) created Cold Fusion and was later sold to Macromedia who has it currently at level MX (Cold Fusion 6).

Example of Cold Fusion

<cfquery name="nameofquery" datasource="odbc_connection" username="simple" password="enough">

Select * from table

where field = 'whateveryouaresearchingfor'

</cfquery>
<cfoutput query="nameofquery">
#field_from_query#   
<!--- Above is called a variable, this text here is just comments !--->
</cfoutput>

Acronym

The Acronum for Cold Fusion is CFM. As in http://website.com/index.cfm