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Applicability (Score:2)

by Matts (1087)

DMP is applicable to everyone who uses perl. TT is applicable to those who use perl and who use TT (instead of some other templating solution or no templating at all).

It makes sense to me.
- Re:Applicability (Score:2)
  
  by davorg (18)
  
  I see that. But alternatively, DMP is applicable to anyone who uses Perl and the badger is applicable to anyone who uses templates (not necessarily just people who use Perl and templates).
  
  The fact that we're not getting to that (potentially much larger) second group is probably because TT is seen as a Perl tool, rather than a tool that just happens to be written in Perl. TT has a pretty good press within the Perl community, but it seems to be almost unknown outside of it. I need to put my Linux Format "Int
  - Re:Applicability (Score:2)
    
    by Matts (1087) on 2004.10.01 8:48 (#34879) Journal
    
    Yes, you're definitely missing that market, but I don't think that market really exists :-)
    
    In order to do useful things with TT you have to be using perl for data structure generation, so the two are quite intimately tied together. It's not like XSLT where there are C implementations that can be embedded into other languages, unfortunately.
    
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