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Ask HN: Pre-JS, were any other languages considered for dynamic web pages?

3 points by arthurcolle 8y ago

I know of Java applets, but other than that, I'm just interested in a little historical perspective - what if Perl (as one concrete example) had been used for dynamic web pages instead of developing a new language for non-static web pages?

mindcrime 8y ago
The only one I'm familiar with is Microsoft's proprietary VBScript[1] language. AFAIK, it was only ever supported in IE (from a browser perspective). [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VBScript https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VBScript
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rcfox 8y ago
Microsoft did have a PerlScript ActiveX engine, similar to JScript and VBScript, but I don't think it was used with IE.