Is Perl *that* good?

[Roger Binns]

Paul Prescod wrote:
> Python had a shot too:
> 
> http://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/archives/WWW-TALK/www-talk-1994q3/1066.html

It doesn't look like anyone actually developer a Python enabled
browser though.  Code is always better than talk :-)

> > To solve the same problems, Netscape invented yet another language and
> > put "marketing flavour of the day" in front, blessing us with Javascript.
> > I really wish Tcl had won that one.
> 
> I wish Python had won. ;)

Python isn't really suitable because web scripting languages really need
to be happy to treat everything as a string.  (You will note that is a
trait Javascript and PHP share).

Roger