There was a strange time in the dark days of IE6 dominance 20 years ago that you actually could write page scripts in non-javascript languages. VBScript was a big option that some people used, and IIRC there was a way to get python support in IE (and Windows) script host too. When I was first learning Javascript in ~1998 I remember all the docs showed how to do stuff in both JS and VB script tags: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17483782/vbscript-suppor...