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From: "Marc van Woerkom" <q5480035@mailstore.fernuni-hagen.de>
Subject: Re: Jaws - coming soon - testers and advice wanted
To: "Joe Armstrong \(AL/EAB\)" <joe.armstrong@ericsson.com>
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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 15:37:36 +0100
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>jaws is a template language for yaws (jaws is inspired by 
>PHP, velocity and AJAX)

Some reading on templates:

1)  "Just so you know, I've never been a big fan of
    functional languages and I laughed really hard 
    when I realized (while writing the academic paper) 
    that I had implemented a functional language. 
    The nature of the problem simply dictated a 
    particular solution." 

   http://www.stringtemplate.org/about.html
   http://www.cs.usfca.edu/~parrt/papers/mvc.templates.pdf

2) 
    http://blog.dev.sf.net/index.php?/archives/15-Templates,-Gift-from-Heaven-or-Syntactic-Junk-Food.html


3)  
    http://blog.dev.sf.net/index.php?/archives/15-Templates,-Gift-from-Heaven-or-Syntactic-Junk-Food.html


My personal view is that templates are useful to support 
division of labour - the programmers develop their php 
files, the screen designers their template file.


However as dynamic HTML / AJAX techniques play a larger 
role I now see more and more JavaScript in real world 
template files which formerly contained mostly CSS, HTML 
plus a little bit template syntax. 

I wonder if it would do any good, if one would bolt an 
Erlang interpreter to Mozilla. Could it do the DOM 
manipulation as good as JavaScript does?

Regards,
Marc
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