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[[Company:Hewlett-Packard|HP]]'s '''Web Language''' (formerly known as '''WebL''' and renamed to avoid a possible trademark conflict<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.hpl.hp.com/downloads/crl/webl/faq.html#name  | title = FAQ - Why the name change? | accessdate = 2009-03-20 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070428123803/http://www.hpl.hp.com/downloads/crl/webl/faq.html#name |archivedate = 2007-04-28}}</ref>) is a scripting language for automating tasks on the World-Wide Web. It is an imperative, interpreted [[Programming language|programming language]] implemented in [[Java (programming language)|Java]] and running on the [[Software:Java (software platform)|Java Platform]] that has built-in support for common web protocols like [[HTTP]] and FTP, and popular data types like [[HTML]] and [[XML]].

== External links ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070507043202/http://www.hpl.hp.com/downloads/crl/webl/index.html Archived Web site]

== References ==
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[[Category:Java (programming language)]]
[[Category:JVM programming languages]]
[[Category:Cross-platform software]]
[[Category:World Wide Web]]



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