I think this is an excellent compromise.
Result of quick proof-reading follows...
.robin.
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 10:10:37AM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote:
> <item title="What templating system should I use?">
>
> <p>You have many choices here (As always in perl There's More Than One
s/perl/Perl,/
> Way To Do It, and it's often a case of picking the best fit for the job.)
> Many of the group belive that <a href="www.template-toolkit.org">Template
> Toolkit</a> is a good option, a view fostered by the fact (upmost other
s/upmost/amongst/; #?
> reasons) that Andy Wardly (the author) has come and given us good talks
s/Wardly/Wardley/
> and convinced many of us. And bought beer. Beer helped. Other members
> of the group however remain unconvinced and nominate many of the other
s/many of/one of/; # do you think?
> alternatives out there as their template system of choice..
> </p>
>
> <p> The alternatives range from low level 'I just write custom perl each
> time', though to using perl embedding languages, right up to using Matt
> Sergeant's excellent <a href="www.axkit.org">AxKit</a>, a XML Application
> Server (which Matt also gave us a talk on.) At last count there where 33
s/where/were/
> different templating systems for perl (though this figure cannot possible
> not have changed by the time you're reading this.) Note that these aren't
> all incompatible systems and we've had several example of people using
s/example/examples/
> pure perl and Template Toolkit, Template Toolkit and AxKit, and other
s/perl/Perl/
> crazy schemes. Some London Perl Mongers even admit to liking PHP and
> python for templating systems (but not real programming ;-) .)
> </p>
>
> <p>
> This discussion has been done to death on the list and no-one has ever
> reached a concensus apart from maybe like many of these problems there is
s/concensus/consensus/;
> no <em>one</em> best fit. You want to plug your own template system of
> choice and get it mentioned here? Give us a talk at one of the technical
> meetings.
> </p>
>
> </item>
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