Thats wonderful. And what happens when somebody wants to change the font color to red? You get your text editor, open the perl script, find your heredoc (wherever it is) and then change the font color. Oh wait, he prefers the font color to be blue instead. No.. green. And so on and so forth. Or other minor graphical changes that should really be the providence of the web *designer* as opposed to the web *programmer*. Templates of course avoid both of these issues. As for inlining perl in to text, <tmpl_var foo> is hardly what *I* would call perl code. And what about caching? You can't cache individual here docs.. you can templates. Not to mention templates can also help impose a more logical structure upon your program.