Template toolkit is indeed more ergonomic, but it also carries a lot of (useful) baggage with it (but baggage is still baggage). The example given lends itself to a more simpler solution. Rather than being the Pepsi guy at a Coca-Cola rally, i would have recommended Inline::TT: 
use strict;
use warnings;
use Inline qw(TT);

print test(
   HOME => $ENV{HOME},
   PATH => $ENV{PATH},
);

__END__
__TT__
[% BLOCK test %]
<html>
<head><title>Test Template</title>
<body>
My Home Directory is [% HOME %]
<p>
My Path is set to [% PATH %]
</body>
</html>
[% END %]

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However, i still prefer HTML::Template for its sheer simplicity. And my eyes haven't gone bad yet. ;)

jeffa

L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L--
-R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR
B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B--
H---H---H---H---H---H---
(the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)

In reply to (jeffa) Re: HTML::Template by jeffa
in thread HTML::Template by defyance

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