[wainstead]

I recall seeing my first PHP/FI page in the middle 90s. PHP was a godsend after you'd suffered with Apache's "server side includes" [0], which is largely what it was used to replace.

Python's origin was as a teaching language (originally ABC I think?), and thus the simplicity of the syntax. It was kinda cool that Python was around for so long before it took off... I had the O'Reilly Python book way back in the 90s.

Perl's influences were awk, sed, bash, C, Fortran, and Lisp.

[0] https://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/linux/apache/ch10_01.htm