[cgiapp] Re: Template::TAL

[Robert Hicks]

Michael Peters wrote:
> Robert Hicks wrote:
>> Has anyone tried integrating:
>>
>> http://search.cpan.org/~fotango/Template-TAL-0.91/lib/Template/TAL.pm
>>
>> into CA? Looks like a nice fit.
> 
> It's just another templating system. The only real reason to use TAL is because
> it's language agnostic. It's got implementations in Python, Java and PHP. So if
> you're working on a multi language project then it's a good fit. Otherwise it's
> slow (slower than both TT and H::T) and I find it incredibly verbose and clumsy.
> I converted a few TAL templates into TT equivalents once and the reduction in
> size was almost 50%.
> 
Good enough for me *not* to use it. Thanks for the input.

Robert