I'm sorry, but you must not have checked out the CPAN site very closely. There are scads of (well maybe not scads... how many is a scad anyway...) ways to embed Perl inside of HTML.

As far as ASP goes I must say that in my experience I haven't really seen anything done with ASP that either embedded perl, mod_perl, or just plain CGI couldn't accomplish.

I also seem to remember that benchmark comparisons between PHP and Perl seemed to favor Perl FWIW.

Check out the following on CPAN:

• HTML::EP
• HTML::Mason
• Apache::ASP

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