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[Michael Champion]
>Gaack! OK, "somewhat" less of an issue, but alarm bells go off in my head
when
>I hear something that sounds to me like "Pay no attention to the mess
behind the
>curtain, the great and powerful Wizard will guide you."
Uche exposed the pitfalls of relying on wizards
http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=7213
...
Yup. Wizards should be a convenience not a substitute for a conceptual
model of what
is going on in any syntax. Wizards can be a seductive trap.
http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200206/msg01068.html
Its that human-readability thing again.
There is great value in human-readability. Jettison it, and you are on a
slippery slope
towards loosing ownership over your own conceptual models of your own data.
You many think you own it but you don't. You will be a slave to the tools
rather
than the other way around.
Not good. Not good at all.
Sean
http://seanmcgrath.blogspot.com
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