The very first idea of inventing a new programming language hit upon me more than 10 years ago. At that time, I was still in the university, and I was trying to build a web forum for my peer scholars. I was using Perl. The pain in using Perl drove me to invent a better language that treats markup as built-in data type. Initially I was trying to mix XML with Java, which I considered to be the best markup and programming languages in the world. Then came XSLT and XQuery, which changed my design of the new language fundamentally.
