And, in fact, after a bit more thinking, Velocity it is.

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Benson Margulies <[email protected]> wrote:
> 1) velocity spews endless useless log messages whenever you touch it.
> 2) I found an ant task for fmpp that could be easily mutated into a
> maven mojo. I didn't find the equivalent for velocity, but I think I
> got distracted in the process.
>
> I think that the templates in this case will be so simple as to make
> the point moot. In fact, I begin to suspect that either device could
> digest them.
>
> I started writing code to call fmpp, but if I don't find a good answer
> to the puzzle of the moment, I'm going to go read up the velocity doc
> and perhaps change horses.
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Ted Dunning <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I don't think I know enough to comment intelligently.
>>
>> But I will comment anyway.  :-)
>>
>> I see three options, off-hand,
>>
>> a) velocity (the standard answer, don't know if it fits)
>>
>> b) freemarker (a more fashionable answer, don't know any strong reason it is
>> better than (a))
>>
>> c) something off the wall like python or groovy.
>>
>> Benson,
>>
>> Could you comment on what moves you to like option (b)?  I yearn to be
>> educated.
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 4:02 AM, Benson Margulies 
>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> Meanwhile, on this thread, anyone object to FreeMarker as the template
>>> language?
>>>
>>> On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 7:02 AM, Benson Margulies <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>> > If you want speed, you want a shortcut for this.
>>> >
>>> > On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 2:40 AM, Sean Owen <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> >> Agree, but isn't the conclusion that the internal map returns NaN, and
>>> >> if desired, the vector converts that to 0.0?
>>> >> In my world of maps, I don't have any case where 'null' should mean '0'.
>>> >>
>>> >> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 2:18 AM, Ted Dunning <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>> >>> This seems most congenial.  As Jake says, 0 is definitely handier for
>>> the
>>> >>> sparse matrix/vector case and NaN is very nice for the collection case.
>>> >>
>>> >
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Ted Dunning, CTO
>> DeepDyve
>>
>

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