I ported a WML based university department website to a custom python based stack in 2012, after having worked with the WML pages for 4 years. It was quite a re

I ported a WML based university department website to a custom python based stack in 2012, after having worked with the WML pages for 4 years. It was quite a relief, even though I hadn't had clear plans how to make the new system. If I had to describe WML in a word, I'd say it's cruft. If I remember correctly it is up to 9 languages that you can use at once. (Lots of escaping!) With the exception of embedded Perl, which is about last in the parsing order, I don't remember any other of them to have even remotely usable datatypes. They have at most an ad-hoc macro system where HTML tags serve as function calls.