HTML is great, it's just a little more verbose. I like PHP because I can wrap logic around HTML so that documents are described in document markup and code is

HTML is great, it's just a little more verbose. I like PHP because I can wrap logic around HTML so that documents are described in document markup and code is in code. I like Mustache because I can write a document in document markup and then pass in the variables like a MS Word "mail merge". Using HTML means less things to learn, which is very good. However, HTML is definitely not the perfect language. Things like HAML and Slim are attempts to make a cleaner, less verbose document language. (However, they are mixing the ideas of document markup with code, since they are trying to solve "templating" together and not just one problem at a time.) So I appreciate things like this, but I still choose not to use them unless I'm forced to.