in reply to RFC: Templating without a System

No, it doesn't make a lot of sense because so much of what you did was done for your own personal reasons not for reasons of logical dissent. OK, so some of the existing systems had features you didn't like. But it is as obvious to me as it is to others that you didn't do a whole lot of research, after all, you admit to two hours research and... oh... how many hours designing and coding?

Your comment on "not written here" is somewhat indicative. If you didn't write it you can't understand it. Fine, don't try and understand anything anyone else has written.

It seems you have come up with a more difficult to understand templating system because you didn't want to understand the existing templating systems. I only needed about three hours to explain the fundamentals of HTML::Template to the designers who produce the HTML and CSS here. Anything they don't understand how to do they give us the HTML and wrap it in quotes so we know they were having a problem, usually only takes a Perl coder 3 or 4 minutes to fix the problem.

Good luck! I found your templates hard to read, so I am certain your HTML coders who know no Perl at all will find it a snap.

jdtoronto

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Re^2: RFC: Templating without a System
by shmem (Chancellor) on Jun 20, 2006 at 07:38 UTC
    But it is as obvious to me as it is to others that you didn't do a whole lot of research, after all, you admit to two hours research and... oh... how many hours designing and coding?
    Something around four hours until I had something that kept me going.
    Your comment on "not written here" is somewhat indicative. If you didn't write it you can't understand it. Fine, don't try and understand anything anyone else has written.
    Thanks for the bad advice. I usually try to (and then do) understand what is written and said, it's not that I am ignorant because I want to (but then, Exporter::Heavy.pm is still puzzling me, and I don't really want to grok it). I only decided to defer the decision for a toolkit (if any) until I had time. I thought I had made that point clear. As someone said, "those who don't understand UNIX are doomed to reinvent it, poorly", but this is not the case here. And the sheer complexity of the evolved toolkits is probably a reason why so many stick with PHP. 
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