I remember writing a lot of early web stuff in Perl/CGI. The "servers" I wrote were fast. Perl had most things you could desire built in already. Database stuf

I remember writing a lot of early web stuff in Perl/CGI. The "servers" I wrote were fast. Perl had most things you could desire built in already. Database stuff took a good deal of doing, but with little in terms of abstraction, it was also quite fast. I would like to see a rennescance of using different protocols than HTTP and different content markup than HTML.