Well, C was there first in that sense, but yes, you're broadly correct. But that misses the point. PHP was developed and released as a templating language - something anybody with a bit of basic HTML knowledge (and, frankly, all HTML knowledge was basic HTML knowledge back then) could use to build an interactive site by using HTML-like tags to employ code written by somebody else as widgets in an HTML page. Perl meant writing the whole thing, including emitting HTML from the code.