8 May
2002
8 May
'02
1:39 p.m.
On Wednesday 08 May 2002 04:36 am, Chris Withers allegedly wrote: [snip]
It seems far harder to map to conventional languages.
Such as? I don't think that an improtant requirement is for a templating language to look like a programming language. If that's the case, why not just use Python Scripts and string substitution?
The fact that ZPT finally comes to grips with the fact that templating is different than programming is its greatest strength IMHO. Since ZPT encourages a greater level of abstraction then DTML does, it can exacerbate the "where's the beef" problem a bit. However, I would argue that there is still too much mixing of presentation and logic, even in ZPT. Someday, I intend to change that. -Casey