Let's not forget HTML::Mason which was Perl's answer to PHP but with the overhead of mod_perl. I thought it was at least as good of what PHP had to offer back t

Let's not forget HTML::Mason which was Perl's answer to PHP but with the overhead of mod_perl. I thought it was at least as good of what PHP had to offer back then. The only argument for PHP vs. Mason was ease of deployment as Mason was arguably more feature-rich.