> > we didn't see any need to look at any modules, because what we needed > > was so simple that we built it ourselves with practically zero effort. > > That's what everyone says. The advantage with using a standard module > is portability. HTML::Template syntax is supported in Perl, Java, > Python, PHP, Lisp, C++ and Ruby.
I guess we never looked at inter-language portability of function calls; we just treated this as a Perl function. When we shifted to Java, we just used a Perl utils class under Java, and wrote a Template class in Java using the Perl regex features. For a group working across many languages, I can see that this similarity of syntax will be a blessing. > The syntax is extremely easy, while also being powerful. Once you start > using mod_perl, you'll notice huge improvements in performance with > HTML::Template's caching. The trivial module we developed has so small an API (I think there's just a "load-template" and a "patch-template") that we didn't think we needed any further ease in the syntax. And the cacheing is totally a cool feature. We added cacheing too, in our code, when we did mod_perl and also when we did Java. That bit is also very simple to add, and didn't need any API change. Shuvam -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
