It's actually in the source of the page, just commented out: Javascript: Java is scary. Also hidden in the source: Python: Modula-3 is scary. Cur

It's actually in the source of the page, just commented out: Javascript: Java is scary. Also hidden in the source: Python: Modula-3 is scary. Curl: Lisp syntax is scary, and XML is redundant. Arc: Scheme has no libraries, and both could be denser. There are a lot of languages I haven't been able to figure out how to describe this way. Suggestions would be appreciated about any languages missing from the list. What I'm looking for is not exactly what motivated the language designer (Smalltalk was originally intended for children) but what niche the language first lodged in. What was the appeal of the language to its first users?