PUBLIC MARKS with tags dev & language

This is a poster gives us a peek at the strongest branches of computer languages (no PHP inside!). This appeared in Wired Magazine and you can find a more exhaustive compilation at The Language List at the University of Freiburg.

Here’s a radical idea: don’t even think of making your own language until you’re sure that you can’t do the job using one of the Big Five: XHTML, DocBook, ODF, UBL, and Atom.

adaptive path » ajax: a new approach to web applications

PHPTAL is a PHP implementation of ZPT work. To be short, PHPTAL is a XML/XHTML template library for PHP. While most web developpers continue to use ASP/JSP/PHP tags as the core language of their templates, the Zope community came with a refreshing idea named TAL. The idea was to move presentation actions inside XHTML attributes instead of using plain tags or elements.

velocity template language user guide

language grammar definition