* Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-07-01 23:05]: > On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 09:27:17PM +0200, A. Pagaltzis wrote: > > Of course, we’ve known since the ’70s or so how to make > > better programming languages, but ABW considers templating > > languages to be totally different from programming languages, > > so you get to be transported back to the ’60s. > > Yes, we are celebrating 40 years this summer! Only when I'm > really tripping do I believe TT's a programming language.
Maybe not, but it’s turing complete, and the lessons learned from designing proper languages apply just as much. This is something that all minilanguages suffer from: they start out as simple hacks, not meant to do much, then keep acreting features until they’re turing complete and every bit as bad as BASIC. > > Have I mentioned that I hate TT2 with a passion? > > Avoid it like the plague, then. ;) I wish. Perl does not currently have a really good templating system. I wish the cruddy webapp bits strewn into Mason had not turned me off of it; I’ve come to really despise TT2 and would probably be happier at this time with Mason, although it is bad for roughly the opposite reasons as TT2. I have a rant about that half-written that I should post at some point. And I should then follow through on my arguments and make good on my threat to put ANOTHER templating system on CPAN. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/> _______________________________________________ List: [email protected] Listinfo: http://lists.rawmode.org/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
