Re: [Templates] TT Without Perl

> Following a discussion on my use.perl journal[1], I'd be really

On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Dave Cross wrote:

> Following a discussion on my use.perl journal[1], I'd be really
> interested in hearing about anyone who is using TT but not Perl - that
> is using templates with tpage, ttree or Apache configured with
> Apache::Template (or similar) such that useful applications are
> developed purely in TT without needing to write Perl code.

www.peacedirect.org is built using ttree and Apache::Template but it
needed a couple of custom plugins to do some of the sitemap xml
processing. It could conceivably be managed now by non-perl people, but in
reality perl people maintain the site.

Not sure if that counts or not.

Experience would tend to suggest that if you need basic templating you're
going to use PHP as there is just so much material written for and about
it that is suitable for beginners. If you need a templating system to
support application development you either know perl, learn perl to use
TT, or use the TT equivalent for your $language of choice.

A great target for TT3 would be to have the language and architecture
ported to different core languages so that you could run TT3 on Java or
.NET. Then you'd see it pick up as a cross-platform templating language.

Simon.

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