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> I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on where the field of computer languages is heading, and how that affects the choice of languages for building web sites.

Well, there aren't that many groupings towards which languages
specialize for (not including embedded or other application-specific
domains).  There's OS scripting, Web scripting, and then the otherwise
general-purpose "normative" languages in the middle of those two
extremes.  But this view presumes a model of computation which hasn't
settled into wide agreement.
-- 
MarkJ
Tacoma, Washington