ColdFusion / CFML was essentially that. It started as a pretty simple tag language that made it very easy to implement basic web application logic. Its ambition

ColdFusion / CFML was essentially that. It started as a pretty simple tag language that made it very easy to implement basic web application logic. Its ambitions in the beginning did not go very far beyond building websites and connecting to a database. ColdFusion was probably the only language of that era that was easier to learn than PHP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ColdFusion_Markup_Language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ColdFusion_Markup_Language