A couple of times I have embedded extremely simple templating code into projects I have worked on (usually for code generation purposes). Is this wrong in general in your view? My own justification was that it was simpler to write the 15~20 lines of code to handle what I wanted than it was to use one of the pre-existing modules out there. Just getting aquainted with the API of the module would have taken longer than writing the code.

To turn this into a question, assuming you need a no-frills, quick, light and easy templating system what would you use? A simple

$tags=join "|",map {quotemeta $_} keys %tags;
1 while s/\b($tags)\b/$tags{$1}/g;
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or a templating module?

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