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is there another language that was written domain-specifically for building websites?

• darkstar999 7y ago
  javascript?
  • rgj 7y ago
    No, that was written for client side DOM manipulation. Only.
  • buboard 7y ago
    like rgj says its first class citizens are document and window, not fetching data and outputting html/whatever . Perl comes to mind as another string-manipulation-heavy language.
• brlewis 7y ago
  Back when I was doing a lot with server-side rendering of HTML I made one: https://brl.codesimply.net/ https://brl.codesimply.net/ These days I generally make SPAs. I occasionally think of reviving BRL but don't have any plans.
• adventured 7y ago
  ColdFusion / CFML was essentially that. It started as a pretty simple tag language that made it very easy to implement basic web application logic. Its ambitions in the beginning did not go very far beyond building websites and connecting to a database. ColdFusion was probably the only language of that era that was easier to learn than PHP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ColdFusion_Markup_Language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ColdFusion_Markup_Language
• pjmlp 7y ago
  VBScript, for doing ASP web sites, scripting COM libraries in the process.