Template::Manual::Credits
Template::Manual::CreUser(Contributed Perl DocumeTemplate::Manual::Credits(3)
NAME
Template::Manual::Credits - Author and contributor credits
HISTORY
The Template Toolkit began its life as the "Text::MetaText" module,
originally released to CPAN around 1996. This itself was the public
manifestation of an earlier template processing system I developed
while working at Peritas (now Knowledge Pool - http://www.knowledge-
pool.com/)
"Text::MetaText" was the prototype - the one we always planned to
throw away. It did the job well, showing us what worked and what
didn’t, what was good and what was bad, and gave us some ideas about
what could be done better, given the chance to start again from
scratch.
Some time late in 1998 I threw away the prototype and started work on
the Template Toolkit. By then I was working at Canon Research Centre
Europe Ltd. (CRE), involved in a general research programme related
to web publishing and dynamic content generation. The first alpha
release was in June 1999, followed by numerous more alpha and beta
releases culminating in 1.00 being released on 2nd December 1999.
A month or so later, work had begun on version 2.00. The plan was to
get the template language relatively stable in version 1.00 and not
worry too much about performance or other internal matters. Then, ver-
sion 2.00 would follow to improve performance, clean up the architec-
ture and fix anything that, with the benefit of hindsight, we thought
could be improved. As it happens, me starting work on version 2.00
coincided with Doug Steinwand sending me his parser variant which com-
piled templates to Perl code, giving a major performance boost. As
well as the speedups, there are a whole host of significant new fea-
tures in version 2.00, and a greatly improved internal architecture.
Apart from a few minor "fixups" the template directives and language
have remained the same as in version 1.00
Version 2.00 was available in beta release form in July 2000, just in
time for the 4th Perl Conference where version 1.00 was awarded "Best
New Perl Module". After another extended beta release period, version
2.00 was released on 1st December 2000.
Version 3 has been in development ever since.
AUTHOR
Andy Wardley <abw@wardley.org> <http://wardley.org/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 1996-2007 Andy Wardley. All Rights Reserved.
The Template Toolkit is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
CONTRIBUTORS
Many people have contributed ideas, inspiration, fixes and features to
the Template Toolkit. Their efforts continue to be very much appreci-
ated. Please let me know if you think anyone is missing from this
list.
Chuck Adams, Stephen Adkins, Ivan Adzhubey, Mark Anderson, Bradley
Baetz, Thierry-Michel Barral, Craig Barratt, Stas Bekman, Tony Bowden,
Neil Bowers, Leon Brocard, Lyle Brooks, Dave Cash, Piers Cawley, Dar-
ren Chamberlain, Eric Cholet, Nik Clayton, Tosh Cooey, Dave Cross,
Chris Dean, Francois Desarmenien, Horst Dumcke, Mark Fowler, Michael
Fowler, Kenny Gatdula, Axel Gerstmair, Dylan William Hardison, Perrin
Harkins, Bryce Harrington, Dave Hodgkinson, Lubomir Host, Dave
Howorth, Harald Joerg, Colin Johnson, Adam Kennedy, Vivek Khera,
Rafael Kitover, Ivan Kurmanov, Hans von Lengerke, Jonas Liljegren,
Simon Luff, Andy Maas, Paul Makepeace, Gervase Markham, Sergey Mar-
tynoff, Simon Matthews, Robert McArthur, Craig McLane, Myk Melez,
Eugene Miretskiy, Tatsuhiko Miyagawa, Bill Moseley, Keith G. Murphy,
Chris Nandor, Leslie Michael Orchard, Paul Orrock, Steve Peters, Briac
Pilpre, Yuri Pimenov, Martin Portman, Slaven Rezic, Jess Robinson,
Josh Rosenbaum, Christian Schaffner, Mike Schilli, Randal L. Schwartz,
Paul Seamons, Paul Sharpe, Ville Skyttae, Barrie Slaymaker, Doug
Steinwand, Michael Stevens, Autrijus Tang, Drew Taylor, Swen Thuemm-
ler, Richard Tietjen, Stathy G. Touloumis, Jim Vaughan, Simon Wilcox,
Chris Winters
perl v5.8.8 2007-06-05 Template::Manual::Credits(3)
