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