Re: A different approach to CGI

Thank you all very much, especially Valdez for linking the article - you can imagine how loud I laughed when it started with "Go on, admit it: You've written a templating system. It's OK, nearly everyone has at some point." BWAHAHAHA :-DDDDDDDDD - this Perlin guy is a mindreader :-DDDD

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Re^2: A different approach to CGI by jdtoronto (Prior) on Aug 09, 2004 at 20:53 UTC
But he was right wasn't he! At least my only attempt to write a templating system was back in 1996, but I did it. I think it is actually some sort of rite of passage for CGI programmers. Biggest joke is, I got an upgrade recently for a CGI product one of my clients uses. For years now it has been based on HTML embedded in the Perl code and output using <<HERE print statements. They just added some very basic templating, but, oh, they use a home grown engine! What a nuisance, whch rock have these guys been hiding under? jdtoronto	[reply]

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Re^2: A different approach to CGI
by jdtoronto (Prior) on Aug 09, 2004 at 20:53 UTC

At least my only attempt to write a templating system was back in 1996, but I did it. I think it is actually some sort of rite of passage for CGI programmers.

Biggest joke is, I got an upgrade recently for a CGI product one of my clients uses. For years now it has been based on HTML embedded in the Perl code and output using <<HERE print statements. They just added some very basic templating, but, oh, they use a home grown engine! What a nuisance, whch rock have these guys been hiding under?

jdtoronto

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