That's a good question to ask, and I wouldn't believe that you'd find many Java programmers wanting to program "the Perl way", if indeed you could even decide on a single way that is _the_ Perl way...
However, it seems to me that the concept HTML::Template has of separating the code from the presentation is extremely useful, not only to us coders, but to designers and integrators (and whatever else they might be called - the HTML'ers, etc.), as a concept of not having to learn multiple (or any) programming languages as they move between different companies and / or environments within a company. For that reason, as a technology manager who's made the move between a number of companies in the last 4 or 5 years, and run a number of side projects with collaborators, in a desire to be able to re-use the resources I've gained (people I know I can trust, and who like having me as a manager), I'd like to know that I'm not going to be limited in either my technology choices or my human capital choices. While I personally will choose a perl based solution whenever I can get away with it, there's a good number of reasons why Perl wouldn't be the best solution for a particular scenario - whether it be an existing code base, strategic development, or simply that the nature of the task is better suited to another language. Anyhow, hope that gives some insights into not why a Java programmer would want to program Java differently, but why a project leader might want to abstract a certain layer out into something more platform independent. - Jody Biggs Marina Hauptman wrote: >Why would anyone want to program Java the Perl way anymore than to program >Perl the Java way? > >JSP are templates for Java. Just because non-programmers can do simple >things with jsp doesn't mean that they are all that bad... > >Marina > >>Resent-Date: Mon, 07 Jan 02 16:40:58 EST >>Resent-From: Marina Hauptman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Resent-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>X-Comment: mitvmc.mit.edu: Mail was sent by fort-point-station.mit.edu >>Mailing-List: contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]; run by ezmlm >>Precedence: bulk >>Delivered-To: mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 16:13:52 -0500 (EST) >>From: Sam Tregar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>X-X-Sender: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: Jesse Erlbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>MIME-Version: 1.0 >>Subject: RE: [htmltmpl] HTML::Template has been Ruby-fied! >> >> >>----------------------------Original message---------------------------- >>On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Jesse Erlbaum wrote: >> >>>That's pretty cool! How about a Java version? A Java-compatible templating >>>system would accomplish a number of goals: >>> >>Agreed on all counts. Problem is, it's missed a crucial element - a Java >>programmer that wants to do it! Anyone? >> >>-sam >> >> >> >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
