[Zope-dev] 'not:' kludgey?!

Chris Withers chrisw@nipltd.com
Tue, 14 May 2002 17:26:27 +0100


Marc Lindahl wrote:
> 
> on 5/14/02 4:41 AM, Chris Withers at chrisw@nipltd.com scrivened:
> >
> > Okay, repeat the mantra over to yourself:
> >
> > Templating languages are not procedural languages
> 
> Sounds nice, but what does it mean?  AFAIK a procedural language is
> something that has a definite order of execution... How does a templating
> language differ?

A template language is all about filling in holes in a template. This should be thought of
logically as happening 'all at once', so _not_ in a definite order of execution...

cheers,

Chris