[Analysis] Templates: The good, the bad, the ugly

[Joel Peshkin]

J. Paul Reed wrote:

>
>Also, the claim "We shouldn't look at any other solutions now because the
>one we picked years ago was the best one at the time" isn't compelling. I
>don't know if you're making that claim, but I've heard it made, and that's
>just wrong.
>
Of course, a lot of decisions since that time have relied on the ability 
of templates to call back to Perl code etc... so there are more 
constraints on the decision than there used to be.

-Joel