In 2001 Java was far off from being "de-facto language of the Web Services". cgi was the dominant setup back then and php, and particularly perl was on the top

In 2001 Java was far off from being "de-facto language of the Web Services". cgi was the dominant setup back then and php, and particularly perl was on the top list. Amazon ran on perl back then. More importantly, your statements are clearly a selection bias to confirm your subjective conclusion. You're picking 1 language out of thousands to reassert your statements instead of taking a step back and rethink your conclusion.