"Perhaps the people who make application servers consider Perl's lack of strict type-checking a liability for large applications. Perl is "just a scripting language," they say, best used for quick-and-dirty programming. But experience shows that Web information systems are best built using such small, freestanding components, each of which encapsulates a limited chunk of user interaction. Clearly, Perl fits the bill in this regard." Meanwhile, Randal Schwartz has rewritten png2html in Perl which is cool since I could never get the original C program to do anything but dump core....