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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) 1996-2020 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 If you submit a patch/pull request then please make sure you add your
63 own name to this list and include it in the changes.
64 Adam Kennedy, ahollandECS, Alexey A. Kiritchun, Amiri Barksdale,
66 Andreas Koenig, Andy Wardley, Autrijus Tang, Axel Gerstmair, Barrie
67 Slaymaker, Ben Tilly, Breno G. de Oliveira, Briac Pilpré, Brian Fraser,
68 Brian Wightman, Bryce Harrington, Chris Dean, Chris Winters, Christian,
69 chromatic, Colin Johnson, Colin Keith, Craig Barratt, Darren
70 Chamberlain, Dave Cash, Dave Cross, Dave Hodgkinson, Dave Howorth, Dave
71 Jacoby, David Steinbrunner, Denis F. Latypoff, Dennis Clark, Doug, Drew
72 Taylor, Dylan, E. Choroba, eadjei, Eric Cholet, Francois Desarmenien,
73 François Andriot, fREW Schmidt, gordon-fish, Guido Flohr, Hans von
74 Lengerke, Harald Joerg, Horst Dumcke, Ivan Krylov, Ivan Kurmanov,
75 Jacques Germishuys, Jason Lewis, Jay Hannah, Jens Rehsack, Jess
76 Robinson, Jim Vaughan, John Lightsey, John Napiorkowski, Jon Jensen,
77 Jonas Liljegren, Jonathon Padfield, José Joaquín Atria, Jose Luis
78 Martinez, Josh Rosenbaum, Kenny Gatdula, Kent Fredric, Kevin M. Goess,
79 Koenig, Leon Brocard, Leslie Michael Orchard, Lubomir, Lyle Brooks,
80 Marc Remy, Mark Fowler, Martin, Matthew Somerville, Michael Fowler,
81 Michael Stevens, Mike Schilli, Mikhail Klyuchnikov from Positive
82 Technologies, nataraj, Neil Bowers, Nick Hibma, Nicolas R, Nik Clayton,
83 Norbert Buchmüller, Paul Orrock, Paul Seamons, Paul Sharpe, Perrin
84 Harkins, Philippe Bruhat (BooK), Piers Cawley, Portman, Rafael Kitover,
85 Randal L. Schwartz, Ricardo Signes, Richard Tietjen, Robin Berjon, Rod
86 Taylor, Schaffner, sdeseille, Sean McAfee, Sean Zellmer, Simon, Simon
87 Dawson, Simon Matthews, Simon Napiorkowski, Slaven Rezic, Smylers, Stas
88 Bekman, Stathy G. Touloumis, stefano-b, Steinwand, Steve Peters, Swen,
89 Thierry-Michel Barral, Thuemmler, Timmy Chan, Todd Rinaldo, Tom Delmas,
90 Tony Bowden, Tosh Cooey, Ville Skyttä, Vivek Khera, Wilcox, William
91 Hardison, Yanick Champoux, Yuri Pimenov.
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