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- #============================================================= -*-perl-*-
- #
- # Template::Manual::Credits
- #
- # DESCRIPTION
- # This section provides a brief history of the Template Toolkit and
- # details the primary author and numerous other people who have
- # contributed to it.
- #
- # AUTHOR
- # Andy Wardley <abw@andywardley.com>
- #
- # COPYRIGHT
- # Copyright (C) 1996-2001 Andy Wardley. All Rights Reserved.
- # Copyright (C) 1998-2001 Canon Research Centre Europe Ltd.
- #
- # This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- # modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
- #
- # REVISION
- #
- #
- #========================================================================
-
-
- #------------------------------------------------------------------------
- # IMPORTANT NOTE
- # This documentation is generated automatically from source
- # templates. Any changes you make here may be lost.
- #
- # The 'docsrc' documentation source bundle is available for download
- # from http://www.template-toolkit.org/docs.html and contains all
- # the source templates, XML files, scripts, etc., from which the
- # documentation for the Template Toolkit is built.
- #------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- =head1 NAME
-
- Template::Manual::Credits - Author and contributor credits
-
- =head1 DESCRIPTION
-
- This section provides a brief history of the Template Toolkit and
- details the primary author and numerous other people who have
- contributed to it.
-
- =head1 HISTORY
-
- The Template Toolkit began its life as the Text::MetaText module,
- originally released to CPAN around 1996. This itself was the public
- manifestation of an earlier template processing system I developed
- while working at Peritas (now Knowledge Pool -
- http://www.knowledgepool.com/)
-
- Text::MetaText was the prototype - the one we always planned to throw
- away. It did the job well, showing us what worked and what didn't, what
- was good and what was bad, and gave us some ideas about what could be
- done better, given the chance to start again from scratch.
-
- Some time late in 1998 I threw away the prototype and started work on
- the Template Toolkit. By then I was working at Canon Research Centre
- Europe Ltd. (http://www.cre.canon.co.uk), 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.
-
- 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, we
- thought could be improved. As it happens, me starting work on version
- 2.00 coincided with Doug Steinwand sending me his parser variant which
- compiled templates to Perl code, giving 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.
-
-
-
-
- =head1 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.
-
- Chuck Adams <scrytch@uswest.net>
- Stephen Adkins <stephen.adkins@officevision.com>
- Ivan Adzhubey <iadzhubey@rics.bwh.harvard.edu>
- Mark Anderson <mda@discerning.com>
- Bradley Baetz <bbaetz@student.usyd.edu.au>
- Thierry-Michel Barral <kktos@electron-libre.com>
- Craig Barratt <craig@arraycomm.com>
- Stas Bekman <stas@stason.org>
- Tony Bowden <tony-tt@kasei.com>
- Neil Bowers <neilb@cre.canon.co.uk>
- Leon Brocard <acme@astray.com>
- Lyle Brooks <brooks@deseret.com>
- Dave Cash <dave@gnofn.org>
- Piers Cawley <pdcawley@bofh.org.uk>
- Darren Chamberlain <dlc@users.sourceforge.net>
- Eric Cholet <cholet@logilune.com>
- Dave Cross <dave@dave.org.uk>
- Chris Dean <ctdean@babycenter.com>
- Francois Desarmenien <desar@club-internet.fr>
- Horst Dumcke <hdumcke@cisco.com>
- Mark Fowler <mark@indicosoftware.com>
- Michael Fowler <michael@shoebox.net>
- Axel Gerstmair <anthill@web.de>
- Dylan William Hardison <dylanwh@tampabay.rr.com>
- Perrin Harkins <pharkins@etoys.com>
- Bryce Harrington <bryce@osdl.org>
- Dave Hodgkinson <daveh@davehodgkinson.com>
- Harald Joerg <Harald.Joerg@fujitsu-siemens.com>
- Colin Johnson <colin@knowledgepool.com>
- Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com>
- Rafael Kitover <caelum@debian.org>
- Ivan Kurmanov <http://www.ahinea.com>
- Hans von Lengerke <hans@lengerke.org>
- Jonas Liljegren <jonas@paranormal.se>
- Simon Luff <simon@sports.com>
- Paul Makepeace <Paul.Makepeace@realprogrammers.com>
- Gervase Markham <gerv@mozilla.org>
- Simon Matthews <sam@knowledgepool.com>
- Robert McArthur <mcarthur@dstc.edu.au>
- Craig McLane <mclanec@oxy.edu>
- Leslie Michael Orchard <deus_x@ninjacode.com>
- Eugene Miretskiy <eugene@invision.net>
- Tatsuhiko Miyagawa <miyagawa@edge.co.jp>
- Keith G. Murphy <keithmur@mindspring.com>
- Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>
- Briac PilprΘ <briac@pilpre.com>
- Martin Portman <mrp@cre.canon.co.uk>
- Slaven Rezic <slaven.rezic@berlin.de>
- Christian Schaffner <schaffner@eeh.ee.ethz.ch>
- Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
- Paul Sharpe <paul@miraclefish.com>
- Ville SkyttΣ <ville.skytta@iki.fi>
- Doug Steinwand <dsteinwand@etoys.com>
- Michael Stevens <michael@etla.org>
- Drew Taylor <dtaylor@vialogix.com>
- Swen Thuemmler <Swen.Thuemmler@paderlinx.de>
- Richard Tietjen <Richard_Tietjen@mcgraw-hill.com>
- Stathy G. Touloumis <stathy.touloumis@edventions.com>
- Jim Vaughan <jim@mrjim.com>
- Simon Wilcox <simonw@simonwilcox.co.uk>
- Chris Winters <cwinters@intes.net>
-
- =head1 AUTHOR
-
- Andy Wardley E<lt>abw@andywardley.comE<gt>
-
- L<http://www.andywardley.com/|http://www.andywardley.com/>
-
-
-
-
- =head1 VERSION
-
- Template Toolkit version 2.13, released on 30 January 2004.
-
- =head1 COPYRIGHT
-
- Copyright (C) 1996-2004 Andy Wardley. All Rights Reserved.
- Copyright (C) 1998-2002 Canon Research Centre Europe Ltd.
-
- This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
-
-
-
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