I believe it's an attempt to assure there is no logic in the template code. ...which I think is retarded and anal, since the important part is separation of bu

I believe it's an attempt to assure there is no logic in the template code. ...which I think is retarded and anal, since the important part is separation of business logic and presentation. There is bound to be some level of display logic, which is why most template languages have loops and conditionals. But if you are going that far, why not just use PHP? It is arguably a very good template language.