Re: (OT) Templating laziness

On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Michael Kimsal wrote: > Oooohhhhh! Flamebait!!! :) > > I don't think it's laziness, actually. I think people are looking to > 'structure' things, and that's generally good. I do think that often > times people overstructure things, though, and that's generally bad. > > I'm not knocking fasttemplates or other systems - we've used them > ourselves. But as we worked more and more with it and other > variations, it began to seem like more work than it was worth, > considering (1) what we needed to do and (2) the alternative. Another possibility that I meant to mention is that template systems provide a familiar environment for people coming over from a ColdFusion background. CF is, after all, essentially a template system, as opposed to a programming language. So in that sense, systems such as FastTemplates are important transition tools for people looking to expand beyond what you can do with CF. (Really OT) This will also become one of the key benefits to CF becoming a JSP tag library. ColdFusion users will be able to keep their code, and add to it in a big way with other taglibs, beans, and servlets. Matt