Is Perl *that* good?

[Paul Prescod]

Roger Binns wrote:
> 
> Tcl also had a shot at stardom.  I added it to the Mosaic browser where
> it was used in a similar capacity to JavaScript today.  Details are in
> the proceedings of the 2nd WWW conference.  (The audience were in awe
> of a demo that printed an entire book based on following the rel links
> in web page headers, got everything in the right order, loaded the pages
> and printed).

Python had a shot too:

http://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/archives/WWW-TALK/www-talk-1994q3/1066.html

And I think Python has a claim to the first Web robot:

http://www.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0060.html

> 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. ;)

  Paul