Yes, but that stuff came later. It's actually the first way I used Perl on the web, but by then PHP was off to the races.

You could even get modules that would allow you to inline Python just like PHP, although the interaction between that and mandatory indentation could get a bit "interesting".

Also perhaps ironically, this style of mixing code and HTML has generally come to be regarded as an antipattern. PHP may still be able to do that, but woe unto the project that wants to write tons of code that way. But it's still the foothold PHP used to wedge its way into at least the B tier of languages.