Put the blame on Sam Tregar, then :-)
as you can see, HTML::Template docs say:

HTML::Template - Perl module to use HTML Templates from CGI scripts

Ok, ok; next time I'll continue to read the documents after the NAME section :-)

Ciao!
--bronto

The very nature of Perl to be like natural language--inconsistant and full of dwim and special cases--makes it impossible to know it all without simply memorizing the documentation (which is not complete or totally correct anyway).
--John M. Dlugosz