Its generational. The first generation of the web was its short simple text, and it has URL links. You need a language for short simple text reports. In the

Its generational. The first generation of the web was its short simple text, and it has URL links. You need a language for short simple text reports. In the 90s, that was Perl, it probably still is today. Several generations of the web have happened since then, the graphics art generation came and went (the web should be programmed entirely in WYSIWYG frontpage or the web should be nothing but downloaded adobe flash animations) and now we're into the program generation (the web should be cascading classes and object oriented frameworks and infinitely complicated architectures) I think you can wedge a simple text reporting language into the later generations but its going to be more difficult than using that language to generate simple text reports that happen to have some html entities sprinkled in. MOOSE is a pretty awesome OO system for perl, and Mojolicious is pretty good, but its not realistic to dethrone RoR or javascript frameworks with Perl. Perl6 could be positioned for the next generation of the web, whatever that ends up being, after the programming generation.