Why not allow direct EL?

[Gregory Guthrie]

Why was it decided to not allow simple EL expressions in JSP itself, 
without requiring it as a tag expression?

E.g.
  Today is ${date.today}.
v.s. requiring a <c:out .... />
to get EL expressions.
Yes, it would require a change to JSP, or a global encompassing tag to 
invoke a pre-processor(!), but it seems much more convenient, and natural. 
Like Jakarta Velocity.  :-) Velocity pages are certainly a lot simpler to 
read/write.

Just wondering why JSP evolution didn't chose to include this direction of 
feature(s).

Gregory

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