Re: [PHP Template] Re: [PHP3] PHP Template Engine spec revision 0.52

At 12:40 AM 3/21/00 +0200, Zeev Suraski wrote:
>But the idea is that templates aren't supposed to be powerful.  They're
>supposed to be quite dumb, so that anyone could understand them with no
>more than 5 minutes of learning if he's not a programmer guy, and with no
>learning at all if he is.  If they become powerful, it almost immediately
>means they become complex, which defeats their very purpose.

Frankly, Zeev, I don't understand how you can make claims regarding this
template engine and its purpose when you personally admitted never writing
a line of PHP application code.

Let's see how this works if I substitute something else instead of
'templates' into your statements.

"But the idea is that PHP isn't supposed to be powerful.  It's
supposed to be quite dumb, so that anyone could understand it with no
more than 5 minutes of learning if he's not a programmer guy, and with no
learning at all if he is.  If it becomes powerful, it almost immediately
means it becomes complex, which defeats its very purpose."

Please...

-Andrei