Re: [PHP3] PHP Template Engine spec revision0.52

On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Erik Mathy wrote: > A simple templating system is cool. To be honest, I have not > looked at the template engine spec. Nor, I suspect, would I > understand it much if I did. And I'm sure the template engine > folks have their hearts in the right place, as well. I just want > to make sure that, in the rush to make PHP more popular, we don't > shoot ourselves in the foot. PHP is plenty easy, plenty powerful > and very popular. It's ever increasing server, mind and publicity > share back that up. Umm, no one is rushing to make PHP more popular. It being popular is a consequence of its design and flexibility. Look, my goal is not to write this tremendous template engine and then somehow insidiously lure everyone into using it for _every single script_. I can get my thrills in many other ways. All I want to do is have another tool that helps different people do things a bit differently, if they want to. Cheers, -Andrei "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." -- Albert Einstein