[cgiapp] Re: HT vs TT speed wise

[Robert Hicks <suppressed>]

Ron Savage wrote:
> Hi Robert
>
> > > Right. And to my taste HT is the one to swallow, with TT the one to spit
> > > out.
> > If you care to elaborate I would like to know why?
>
> HT is HTML::Template
> TT is The Template Toolkit
>
> Firstly, my choice was a decision taken years ago. It may well be
> different if taken today.
>
> o I found the complexity of TT's docs quite off-putting, although part of
> the problem was the large quantity of docs, which of course is really a
> good thing, even if so hard to navigate

That is probably true. I had to get the book to grasp some of it and I 
am still grasping it.

> o I had difficulty learning TT's way of doing things (again, which would
> be different today), which is simply the way the author thinks and codes.
> I see this from having written code based on his Pod::POM module [1]
>
> o HT is simpler to grasp and utilize, since it corresponds more closely to
> a 'little language' and hence is more immediately familiar. The
> substitutions which take place in TT's processing of what you write are
> more subtle, and more automagical, and hence more abstract, which mattered
> greatly to me back then. For these reasons I'd recommend HT to first-time
> users of these modules
>
> [1] http://savage.net.au/Perl.html#fancy_pom2_pl

I am kind of drawn to the "simplicity" of HT and there is an article on 
Perl.com about using "filters" with HT that looks cool.

I ran into the looping data problem though and even though I can turn 
off checking and it runs it was just a little annoying.

Robert

P.S. The looping problem if I remember rightly was I was using one db 
call to populate different fields in my templates and the loops were 
dying because I had more "data" than declared in my "loops". In 
otherwords I would pull out last, first and id but only loop over id and 
HT didn't like that. I think that is the general gist of it. TT didn't 
complain about it so I stick with TT.


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