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We use Smarty extensively in our commercial PHP applications as well as our own website ([url=http://pineappletechnologies.com]pineappletechnologies.com).
Hypothetically, if Smarty were ever ported to other languages, all of the templates would work with no modifications. That would not be the case with PHP based templates.
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