I've taken a look at Java and its standard lib and it's really bad at the kind of text processing that 99% of CGI programming is. Hell, it doesn't even have reg

I've taken a look at Java and its standard lib and it's really bad at the kind of text processing that 99% of CGI programming is. Hell, it doesn't even have regexps! To be fair, C is even worse, but that's why we have Perl.