Template-new is called new by upstream author.

it is especially useful in conjunction with a simple text editor such as vi. the user maintains templates which may contain format strings. at run time, new replaces the format strings in a template with appropriate values to create a new file.

this amounts to creation of new files from templates by issuing a command like: template-new file.c

it comes with a large set of predefined templates.

upstream: http://www.flyn.org/projects/new/index.html