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+Stupid Template Engine
+======================
+
+The Stupid Template Engine (STE) is a template engine for the PHP programming
+language.
+
+Requirements
+------------
+
+PHP >= 5.3
+
+Why should you use it?
+----------------------
+
+* It's syntax (inspired by Textpattern's template syntax) is very easy and
+  similar to the syntax of (X)HTML. So it should be easy for designers to learn
+  this system.
+* It has a simple, yet powerful plugin interface. You can easily define your
+  own template functions / tags. It is even possible to write them in the
+  template language itself, which makes it kind of a programming language...
+* It can transcompile templates into PHP.
+* You can use anonymous functions to define custom tags.
+
+Annoying things.
+----------------
+
+* The error messages the parser returns, when your template has errors, are not
+  very helpful, i.e. the position of the error is not returned. You have to seek
+  it yourself.
+* No caching. Could be slow on websites with many hits.
+
+WARNING
+-------
+
+Early development, that means that it might be pretty buggy at the moment...
+