[Petal] Interoperability

[Jim Fulton]

Hi,

I'm Jim Fulton, the "Zope Pope" and one of the creators of Zope Page
Templates. I'm very happy to see a Perl implementations of TAL.
One of the reasons I'm very happy is that I'd like to establish
TAL, http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ZPT/TAL,
METAL, http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ZPT/METAL,
and, perhaps, some form of
TALES, http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ZPT/TALES,
as standards to facilitate reuse of templates among different systems.

Is interoperability a goal of Petal? If not, I suggest it should be.
Not only would it spur reuse, but It would provide more opportunities for
working together. For example, I could provide a lot of insights to the
design of these languages that could inform Petal development.

Jim

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