Templat...:Credits(3)

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to Template::Manual::Credits(3) — the User Contributed Perl Documentation page that is literally the credits for the Template Toolkit. It’s giving end-of-movie roll call but make it Perl 🎬✨.

Template::Manual::Credits — author and contributor credits. That’s it, that’s the name, no cap 💅.

📜 HISTORY 📜

okay so storytime, because the lore is real. The Template Toolkit started life as the Text::MetaText module, originally released to CPAN around 1996. That was the public manifestation of an earlier template processing system the author developed while working at Peritas (now Knowledge Pool — http://www.knowledgepool.com/). 🫶

Text::MetaText was the prototype — the one they always planned to throw away. It did the job well, showing what worked and what didn’t, what was good and what was bad, and gave some ideas about what could be done better, given the chance to start again from scratch. iconic prototype energy, honestly ✨.

Some time late in 1998 the prototype got thrown away and work started on the Template Toolkit. By then the author 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. periodt 🎀.

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 version 2.00 would follow to improve performance, clean up the architecture, and fix anything that, with the benefit of hindsight, they thought could be improved. As it happens, starting work on version 2.00 coincided with Doug Steinwand sending his parser variant, which compiled templates to Perl code and gave a major performance boost. As well as the speedups, there are a whole host of significant new features 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. ate and left no crumbs 🏆.

Version 3 has been in development ever since. the long game, fr fr ⏳.

✍️ AUTHOR ✍️

Andy Wardley <abw@wardley.org> <http://wardley.org/> — that’s the author, bestie. main character energy 👑.

©️ COPYRIGHT ©️

Copyright (C) 1996-2020 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. no cap, that’s the legal bit 💜.

👑 CONTRIBUTORS 👑

Many people have contributed ideas, inspiration, fixes and features to the Template Toolkit. Their efforts continue to be very much appreciated. Please let me know if you think anyone is missing from this list. 🫶

If you submit a patch/pull request then please make sure you add your own name to this list and include it in the changes. yes, that means you, bestie — claim your credit ✨.

the full iconic roll call is, fr fr:

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

💖 okay, that’s the whole page, bestie — source/version perl v5.42.0, dated 2024-06-23. bye and slay 💅✨