"perl lost because it was unable to do asynchronous processing" That's not really true in two senses: 1) If you're just talking about AJAX request handlers, t

"perl lost because it was unable to do asynchronous processing" That's not really true in two senses: 1) If you're just talking about AJAX request handlers, those are trivial to implement in Perl (I put together a number of them). If you're talking about real async processing in an app, POE/threads/etc. can handle async processing readily. 2) People moved off Perl/chose to adopt different langs. for many reasons but async was very rarely one of them.