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3# Template::Manual::Credits
4#
5# AUTHOR
6# Andy Wardley <abw@wardley.org>
7#
8# COPYRIGHT
9# Copyright (C) 1996-2007 Andy Wardley. All Rights Reserved.
10#
11# This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
12# modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
13#
14#========================================================================
15
16=head1 NAME
17
18Template::Manual::Credits - Author and contributor credits
19
20=head1 HISTORY
21
22The Template Toolkit began its life as the C<Text::MetaText> module,
23originally released to CPAN around 1996. This itself was the public
24manifestation of an earlier template processing system I developed
25while working at Peritas (now Knowledge Pool -
26http://www.knowledgepool.com/)
27
28C<Text::MetaText> was the prototype - the one we always planned to throw
29away. It did the job well, showing us what worked and what didn't, what
30was good and what was bad, and gave us some ideas about what could be
31done better, given the chance to start again from scratch.
32
33Some time late in 1998 I threw away the prototype and started work on the
34Template Toolkit. By then I was working at Canon Research Centre Europe Ltd.
35(CRE), involved in a general research programme related to web publishing and
36dynamic content generation. The first alpha release was in June 1999, followed
37by numerous more alpha and beta releases culminating in 1.00 being released on
382nd December 1999.
39
40A month or so later, work had begun on version 2.00. The plan was to get the
41template language relatively stable in version 1.00 and not worry too much
42about performance or other internal matters. Then, version 2.00 would follow
43to improve performance, clean up the architecture and fix anything that, with
44the benefit of hindsight, we thought could be improved. As it happens, me
45starting work on version 2.00 coincided with Doug Steinwand sending me his
46parser variant which compiled templates to Perl code, giving a major
47performance boost. As well as the speedups, there are a whole host of
48significant new features in version 2.00, and a greatly improved internal
49architecture. Apart from a few minor "fixups" the template directives and
50language have remained the same as in version 1.00
51
52Version 2.00 was available in beta release form in July 2000, just in time for
53the 4th Perl Conference where version 1.00 was awarded "Best New Perl Module".
54After another extended beta release period, version 2.00 was released on 1st
55December 2000.
56
57Version 3 has been in development ever since.
58
59=head1 AUTHOR
60
61Andy Wardley E<lt>abw@wardley.orgE<gt> L<http://wardley.org/>
62
63=head1 COPYRIGHT
64
65Copyright (C) 1996-2007 Andy Wardley. All Rights Reserved.
66
67The Template Toolkit is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
68modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
69
70=head1 CONTRIBUTORS
71
72Many people have contributed ideas, inspiration, fixes and features to
73the Template Toolkit. Their efforts continue to be very much appreciated.
74Please let me know if you think anyone is missing from this list.
75
76Chuck Adams, Stephen Adkins, Ivan Adzhubey, Mark Anderson, Bradley Baetz,
77Thierry-Michel Barral, Craig Barratt, Stas Bekman, Robin Berjon, Tony Bowden,
78Neil Bowers, Leon Brocard, Lyle Brooks, Norbert Buchmüller, Dave Cash, Piers
79Cawley, Darren Chamberlain, Timmy Chan, Eric Cholet, Nik Clayton, Tosh Cooey,
80Dave Cross, Chris Dean, Francois Desarmenien, Horst Dumcke, Mark Fowler,
81Michael Fowler, Kenny Gatdula, Axel Gerstmair, Dylan William Hardison, Perrin
82Harkins, Bryce Harrington, Dave Hodgkinson, Lubomir Host, Dave Howorth, Harald
83Joerg, Colin Johnson, Adam Kennedy, Vivek Khera, Alexey A. Kiritchun, Rafael
84Kitover, Ivan Kurmanov, Denis F. Latypoff, Hans von Lengerke, Jonas Liljegren,
85Simon Luff, Andy Maas, Paul Makepeace, Gervase Markham, Sergey Martynoff,
86Simon Matthews, Robert McArthur, Craig McLane, Myk Melez, Eugene Miretskiy,
87Tatsuhiko Miyagawa, Bill Moseley, Keith G. Murphy, Chris Nandor, John
88Napiorkowski, Breno G. de Oliveira, Leslie Michael Orchard, Paul Orrock,
89Jonathon Padfield, Steve Peters, Briac PilprE<eacute>, Yuri Pimenov, Martin
90Portman, Slaven Rezic, Jess Robinson, Josh Rosenbaum, Christian Schaffner,
91Mike Schilli, Randal L. Schwartz, Paul Seamons, Paul Sharpe, Ville
92SkyttE<auml>, Barrie Slaymaker, Doug Steinwand, Michael Stevens, Autrijus
93Tang, Drew Taylor, Rod Taylor, Swen Thuemmler, Richard Tietjen, Ben Tilly,
94Stathy G. Touloumis, Jim Vaughan, Simon Wilcox, Chris Winters
95
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