phpman > perldoc > Template::Manual::Credits(3pm)

NAME
    Template::Manual::Credits - Author and contributor credits

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. (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.

    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.

    Version 3 has been in development ever since.

AUTHOR
    Andy Wardley <abw AT wardley.org> <http://wardley.org/>

COPYRIGHT
    Copyright (C) 1996-2014 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.

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.

    Amiri Barksdale, Thierry-Michel Barral, Craig Barratt, Stas Bekman, Robin Berjon, Tony Bowden,
    Neil Bowers, Leon Brocard, Lyle Brooks, Norbert Buchmüller, Dave Cash, Piers Cawley, Darren
    Chamberlain, Timmy Chan, Eric Cholet, Chromatic, Nik Clayton, Tosh Cooey, Dave Cross, Chris
    Dean, Francois Desarmenien, Horst Dumcke, Mark Fowler, Michael Fowler, Brian Fraser, Kenny
    Gatdula, Axel Gerstmair, Jay Hannah, Dylan William Hardison, Perrin Harkins, Bryce Harrington,
    Dave Hodgkinson, Lubomir Host, Dave Howorth, Jon Jensen, Harald Joerg, Colin Johnson, Colin
    Keith, Adam Kennedy, Vivek Khera, Alexey A. Kiritchun, Rafael Kitover, Andreas Koenig, Ivan
    Kurmanov, Denis F. Latypoff, Hans von Lengerke, Jonas Liljegren, Simon Napiorkowski, Breno G. de
    Oliveira, Leslie Michael Orchard, Paul Orrock, Jonathon Padfield, Steve Peters, Briac Pilpré,
    Yuri Pimenov, Martin Portman, Marc Remy, Slaven Rezic, Jess Robinson, Josh Rosenbaum, Christian
    Schaffner, Mike Schilli, Randal L. Schwartz, Paul Seamons, Paul Sharpe, Ricardo Signes, Ville
    Skyttä, Barrie Slaymaker, David Steinbrunner, Doug Steinwand, Michael Stevens, Autrijus Tang,
    Drew Taylor, Rod Taylor, Swen Thuemmler, Richard Tietjen, Ben Tilly, Stathy G. Touloumis, Jim
    Vaughan, Simon Wilcox, Chris Winters.