NAME

       Template::Manual::Credits - Author and contributor credits

HISTORY

       The Template Toolkit began its life as the "Text::MetaText" module, originally released to CPAN around
       1996.  This itself was the public manifestation of an earlier template processing system I developed
       while working at Peritas (now Knowledge Pool - http://www.knowledgepool.com/)

       "Text::MetaText" was the prototype - the one we always planned to throw away.  It did the job well,
       showing us what worked and what didn't, what was good and what was bad, and gave us some ideas about what
       could be done better, given the chance to start again from scratch.

       Some time late in 1998 I threw away the prototype and started work on the Template Toolkit. By then I was
       working at Canon Research Centre Europe Ltd.  (CRE), involved in a general research programme related to
       web publishing and dynamic content generation. The first alpha release was in June 1999, followed by
       numerous more alpha and beta releases culminating in 1.00 being released on 2nd December 1999.

       A month or so later, work had begun on version 2.00. The plan was to get the template language relatively
       stable in version 1.00 and not worry too much about performance or other internal matters. Then, version
       2.00 would follow to improve performance, clean up the architecture and fix anything that, with the
       benefit of hindsight, we thought could be improved. As it happens, me starting work on version 2.00
       coincided with Doug Steinwand sending me his parser variant which compiled templates to Perl code, giving
       a major performance boost. As well as the speedups, there are a whole host of significant new features in
       version 2.00, and a greatly improved internal architecture. Apart from a few minor "fixups" the template
       directives and language have remained the same as in version 1.00

       Version 2.00 was available in beta release form in July 2000, just in time for the 4th Perl Conference
       where version 1.00 was awarded "Best New Perl Module".  After another extended beta release period,
       version 2.00 was released on 1st December 2000.

       Version 3 has been in development ever since.

AUTHOR

       Andy Wardley <abw@wardley.org> <http://wardley.org/>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 1996-2014 Andy Wardley.  All Rights Reserved.

       The Template Toolkit is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as
       Perl itself.

CONTRIBUTORS

       Many people have contributed ideas, inspiration, fixes and features to the Template Toolkit.  Their
       efforts continue to be very much appreciated.  Please let me know if you think anyone is missing from
       this list.

       If you submit a patch/pull request then please make sure you add your own name to this list and include
       it in the changes.

       Amiri Barksdale, Thierry-Michel Barral, Craig Barratt, Stas Bekman, Robin Berjon, Tony Bowden, Neil
       Bowers, Leon Brocard, Lyle Brooks, Norbert Buchmüller, Dave Cash, Piers Cawley, Darren Chamberlain, Timmy
       Chan, Eric Cholet, Chromatic, Nik Clayton, Tosh Cooey, Dave Cross, Chris Dean, Francois Desarmenien,
       Horst Dumcke, Mark Fowler, Michael Fowler, Brian Fraser, Kenny Gatdula, Axel Gerstmair, Jay Hannah,
       Dylan William Hardison, Perrin Harkins, Bryce Harrington, Dave Hodgkinson,  Lubomir Host, Dave Howorth,
       Jon Jensen, Harald Joerg, Colin Johnson,  Colin Keith, Adam Kennedy, Vivek Khera, Alexey A. Kiritchun,
       Rafael Kitover,  Andreas Koenig, Ivan Kurmanov, Denis F. Latypoff, Hans von Lengerke,  Jonas Liljegren,
       Simon Napiorkowski, Breno G. de Oliveira, Leslie Michael Orchard, Paul Orrock, Jonathon Padfield, Steve
       Peters, Briac Pilpré, Yuri Pimenov, Martin Portman, Marc Remy, Slaven Rezic, Jess Robinson, Josh
       Rosenbaum, Christian Schaffner, Mike Schilli, Randal L. Schwartz, Paul Seamons, Paul Sharpe, Ricardo
       Signes, Ville Skyttä, Barrie Slaymaker, David Steinbrunner, Doug Steinwand, Michael Stevens, Autrijus
       Tang, Drew Taylor, Rod Taylor, Swen Thuemmler, Richard Tietjen, Ben Tilly, Stathy G. Touloumis, Jim
       Vaughan, Simon Wilcox, Chris Winters.