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6 Template::Manual::Credits - Author and contributor credits
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9 The Template Toolkit began its life as the "Text::MetaText" module,
10 originally released to CPAN around 1996. This itself was the public
11 manifestation of an earlier template processing system I developed
12 while working at Peritas (now Knowledge Pool -
13 http://www.knowledgepool.com/)
14 "Text::MetaText" was the prototype - the one we always planned to throw
16 away. It did the job well, showing us what worked and what didn't,
17 what was good and what was bad, and gave us some ideas about what could
18 be done better, given the chance to start again from scratch.
19 Some time late in 1998 I threw away the prototype and started work on
21 the Template Toolkit. By then I was working at Canon Research Centre
22 Europe Ltd. (CRE), involved in a general research programme related to
23 web publishing and dynamic content generation. The first alpha release
24 was in June 1999, followed by numerous more alpha and beta releases
25 culminating in 1.00 being released on 2nd December 1999.
26 A month or so later, work had begun on version 2.00. The plan was to
28 get the template language relatively stable in version 1.00 and not
29 worry too much about performance or other internal matters. Then,
30 version 2.00 would follow to improve performance, clean up the
31 architecture and fix anything that, with the benefit of hindsight, we
32 thought could be improved. As it happens, me starting work on version
33 2.00 coincided with Doug Steinwand sending me his parser variant which
34 compiled templates to Perl code, giving a major performance boost. As
35 well as the speedups, there are a whole host of significant new
36 features in version 2.00, and a greatly improved internal architecture.
37 Apart from a few minor "fixups" the template directives and language
38 have remained the same as in version 1.00
39 Version 2.00 was available in beta release form in July 2000, just in
41 time for the 4th Perl Conference where version 1.00 was awarded "Best
42 New Perl Module". After another extended beta release period, version
43 2.00 was released on 1st December 2000.
44 Version 3 has been in development ever since.
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48 Andy Wardley <abw@wardley.org> <http://wardley.org/>
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51 Copyright (C) 1996-2007 Andy Wardley. All Rights Reserved.
52 The Template Toolkit is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
54 modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
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57 Many people have contributed ideas, inspiration, fixes and features to
58 the Template Toolkit. Their efforts continue to be very much
59 appreciated. Please let me know if you think anyone is missing from
60 this list.
61 Chuck Adams, Stephen Adkins, Ivan Adzhubey, Mark Anderson, Bradley
63 Baetz, Thierry-Michel Barral, Craig Barratt, Stas Bekman, Robin Berjon,
64 Tony Bowden, Neil Bowers, Leon Brocard, Lyle Brooks, Norbert
65 BuchmA~Xller, Dave Cash, Piers Cawley, Darren Chamberlain, Timmy Chan,
66 Eric Cholet, Nik Clayton, Tosh Cooey, Dave Cross, Chris Dean, Francois
67 Desarmenien, Horst Dumcke, Mark Fowler, Michael Fowler, Kenny Gatdula,
68 Axel Gerstmair, Dylan William Hardison, Perrin Harkins, Bryce
69 Harrington, Dave Hodgkinson, Lubomir Host, Dave Howorth, Harald Joerg,
70 Colin Johnson, Adam Kennedy, Vivek Khera, Alexey A. Kiritchun, Rafael
71 Kitover, Ivan Kurmanov, Denis F. Latypoff, Hans von Lengerke, Jonas
72 Liljegren, Simon Luff, Andy Maas, Paul Makepeace, Gervase Markham,
73 Sergey Martynoff, Simon Matthews, Robert McArthur, Craig McLane, Myk
74 Melez, Eugene Miretskiy, Tatsuhiko Miyagawa, Bill Moseley, Keith G.
75 Murphy, Chris Nandor, John Napiorkowski, Breno G. de Oliveira, Leslie
76 Michael Orchard, Paul Orrock, Jonathon Padfield, Steve Peters, Briac
77 Pilpre, Yuri Pimenov, Martin Portman, Slaven Rezic, Jess Robinson, Josh
78 Rosenbaum, Christian Schaffner, Mike Schilli, Randal L. Schwartz, Paul
79 Seamons, Paul Sharpe, Ville Skyttae, Barrie Slaymaker, Doug Steinwand,
80 Michael Stevens, Autrijus Tang, Drew Taylor, Rod Taylor, Swen
81 Thuemmler, Richard Tietjen, Ben Tilly, Stathy G. Touloumis, Jim
82 Vaughan, Simon Wilcox, Chris Winters
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