> PHP was definitely born _for_ webpages; Ruby wasn't, just like Perl or > Python weren't, it just became very popular for webpages when Rails > appeared.
In this kind of discussion, I get always reminded that Perl stands for "Practical Extraction and Report Language". So Perl _clearly_ is for generating reports :-) FWIW, I think the main purpose of Python is to do testing on distributed operating systems :-) Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list