[TYPO3-dev] Moving the topic of the discussion a little bit -- Based of thread "Change roadmap..."

[Michael Scharkow]

Thomas Murphy wrote:

> And for the Smarty/PHP templateing comparison: The good thig about 
> Smarty is it wonderful chaching mechanism, where it compiles the 
> templates into pure php -> so it is as fast as PHP, once cached.

The wonderful thing about using pure PHP as templates:

1. The syntax is PHP which is more likely to be known to more HTML/CSS 
designers than Smarty.
2. It's just as fast as PHP ;)

Cheers,
Michael