Template parsing

[eluser]Andrewkha[/eluser]
Hi there

Another stupid question from newbie.
What is the benefit of using templates in PHP development and in CI in particular? What I was able to understand from the manual, parsing templates is pretty the same process as using

Code:

$data = array(...)
$this->load->view('view', $data);

It also replaces some specific items in html code with values that we pass to it.

So what's the difference?