I've been using Template since 2008. It's extremely handy. And it's sort of easy enough to write your own "plugins" as well, like support for multi-language lookups in your database.

...
use base qw(Template::Plugin);

use Template::Plugin;
use Template::Exception;

sub load {
    my ($class, $context) = @_;
    my $self = bless {
    }, $class;

    return $self;
}

sub new {
    my ($self, $context) = @_;
    return $self;
}
...
sub tr {
    my ($self, $data) = @_;

    return $data if($data eq '');

    my $lang = $self->getLang;
    my $trans = tr_translate($lang, $data);

    return $trans;
}
...
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And suddenly, you can call [% tr.tr("Hello World") %] in your Template and have your backend insert the correct klingon translation.