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The Markup Culture and the WYIWYG Culture? - was Re: The Cogni

• To: Norman Walsh <ndw@n...>
• Subject: The Markup Culture and the WYIWYG Culture? - was Re: The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint
• From: Michael Champion <mc@x...>
• Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 18:49:12 -0500
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
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On Dec 17, 2003, at 4:57 PM, Norman Walsh wrote:

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> A structured editing tool is *great* for XML, but most of the
> structured editors I've seen think they're doing you some sort of
> favor by hiding the markup. To me, that's like hiding the punctuation.
> Sure, lines of text and spaces unbroken by all those pesky periods and
> commas would be simpler by some metric of simplicity, but they
> wouldn't be easier (for me) to understand.
>

I bet you're a part of the Unix culture too :-) See
  http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Biculturalism.html

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  • Re: The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint
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  • Re: The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint
    • From: Norman Walsh <ndw@n...>

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