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On Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 11:31:20PM -0700, ttn@mingle.glug.org wrote: > It seems most non-programmers are scared of complex control structures, > hence their affinity for "scripts", which tend to have a linear command- > oriented nature. Argument substitution a la $1, $2, etc is easy enough > to understand, but going beyond that falls outside the template-filling > paradigm that many regard (incorrectly) as the essense of programming. Right - and a lot of people doing web scripting are definitely not programmers. Not by a long shot. Not that they aren't bright people, but, a language that allows them to be productive doing simple things in the shortest time possible is a win for people paying money for their time. I spent my summer overseeing a big web scripting project, so I've given the matter a fair amount of thought.. Ciao, -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org