One thing that struck me at last night's Web Frameworks Night[1] was how many projects are actually using TT (or, at least, code that looks a lot like TT) even if they don't know it.
Of course I wasn't surprised to see that Catalyst[2] uses TT, but when Simon Willison showed an example of Django[3] (a Python Framework) templates, it looked really similar to TT (they use {% ... %} instead of [% ... %]). Apparently they "borrowed" the ideas from Smarty[4], so it must have been Smarty that borrowed them from TT.
And then there was Ruby on Rails. The "official" templating language in RoR is still Ruby (much like you'd use Perl in Mason) but some people are starting to realise the madness in that and a new Ruby templating language called Liquid[5] has just been released. Liquid borrows heavily from Django's templates and therefore also looks a lot like TT).
So it looks like we're taking over the world by stealth. I wonder if we can build a new market for badger books :)
Dave... [1] http://blog.dave.org.uk/archives/000852.html [2] http://catalyst.perl.org/ [3] http://www.djangoproject.com/ [4] http://smarty.php.net/ [5] http://home.leetsoft.com/liquid -- Site: http://dave.org.uk/ Blog: http://blog.dave.org.uk/ Code: http://dave.org.uk/code/ _______________________________________________ templates mailing list [email protected] http://lists.template-toolkit.org/mailman/listinfo/templates
