Once upon a time, Perl was the de facto language for web development. Then there was a bit of falling out between the web-centric folks and the server-centric folks; resulting in PHP. Perl, as a language for web-development, never really recovered.
I find it kind of sad that it took over a decade and a half-hearted attempt at rewriting the language before the server-centric folks are even beginning to understand what the web-centric folks were talking about. :-/
Once upon a time, Perl was the de facto language for web development. Then there was a bit of falling out between the web-centric folks and the server-centric folks; resulting in PHP. Perl, as a language for web-development, never really recovered.
I find it kind of sad that it took over a decade and a half-hearted attempt at rewriting the language before the server-centric folks are even beginning to understand what the web-centric folks were talking about. :-/