Template::Manual::Credits - phpMan

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.