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by pavlov 3350 days ago
It's fascinating to see these artifacts from how the web and its possibilities were perceived when it was brand new.

By today's expectations, I assumed a "programming language for the web" meant a client-side language -- an alternative to Java with a HTTP focus, implemented as a Netscape plugin perhaps. Instead, WebL turned out to be a server-side language for implementing crawlers and data transformers. Quite interesting.