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Pen version 1.00
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Pen's syntax was developed in the earliest days of web application 
development, when the dominant technology for web apps was CGI
and server-side-include technology.  The syntax is designed to minimize
its footprint in a design-intensive consulting environment where designers, 
not programmers, controlled and maintained the final HTML product.

Inherently, all Web apps are built using MVC architecture.  The MVC View 
consists of formatting languages HTML, XHTML and JavaScript; the MVC Model 
is developed in a control language- if you're reading this, probably Perl.
It follows, then, that every solution for web app development implements 
MVC.  Given its original circumstances, the Pen solution implements the 
View-Control integration with a stronger bias towards the View side.

Originally, this solution was primarily intended for publishing database 
content.  It's been deployed on hundreds of websites, including some
fairly sophisticated apps.  The installed base is currently pretty small,
but there's still a little pressure to accomodate it by publishing.