http://fosterburgess.com/kimsal/?

and

http://paul-m-jones.com/?p=273

Started beating and ranting around on smarty. Since my comment on one of the blogs was deleted. I will rant here.

1. The discussion is really biased towards the non smarty opinion. I can only repeat myself stating that the php-jetset has decided another BAAAD thing to point out and spread FUD. They are just bringing arguments that everybody with a pee warm piece of brain just knows the pros and cons about.

2. More important smarty is well documented and a kind of standard, see the list of applications using smarty as templating. Its just a good product in terms of documentation and examples. Is that the same for the other templating languages that are present out there ? I don't remember seeing any other templating toolkit with that numerous examples.

3. If you dont like it, dont think you have the top-notch-opinion-overall.

I am very sorry to be this harsh, but the actual discussion lacks very basic things:
respect for the work on smarty, repect for the people putting effort in it, respect for a kind of standard.

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