[davidw]

Therein lies one of my regrets: Tcl was out there and was already quite a nice 'simple glue language' that to this day remains more powerful and flexible than PHP in some ways. It's too bad the early Tcl/web systems were proprietary until too late:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOLserver

[duh]

You're the first person I've ever seen reminisce about aolserver.

[davidw]

It was way ahead of its time (read the wikipedia article), with a nicer language than PHP.

I never actually used it much (I was busy working on Apache Rivet), but it was a nice bit of technology.