• Real need (no architecture astronauts)

• Web-delivered applications, not websites (framework)

• Development time crucial (few developers)

• Perl for Lispishness, ubiquity and reliability (1999, still true?)

• HTML template languages are Screen COBOL by another name (not MVC)

• Task centric, not page centric (want rearrangeable logic)

• No frameworks were declarative (meta-data driven)

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