Some ColdFusion developers prefer it since it has less visual and typographical overhead than ordinary CFML.
For example, this is how to get a query into a variable in CFSCRIPT without writing a UDF: Since ColdFusion 8, CFScript has supported syntax abbreviations that are common in many other programming languages, such as "++", "<=" and "+=".
These operators can be used for pre-incrementing or decrementing (as in x = ++ i), where the variable is changed before it is used in the expression.
CFScript has two forms of comments: single line and multiline.
The following list identifies CFScript features that differ from JavaScript: