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> I've lost track of meandering of this thead, so this > may or may not be a response to my suggestion for > staying away from the proprietary wizard tools for > building web services. > Sorry, it was a rather tongue-in-cheek response to Rob Griffin's assertion that RAD and drag and drop tools lead to systems that are poorly designed. According to Rob's sig he works for Quest Software which makes some excellent GUI and drag and drop tools for managing databases. I believe that in many cases that choosing good tools can lead to great productivity gains. Well tested program generators also have the benefit of creating quite reliable code. I don't generally use tools unless I understand what they're doing under the hood. I don't know if more poorly designed code comes from GUI tools or not. If it does, then we have to ask ourselves if it's because people turn off their design skills when using the tools, or whether it's because the tools simplified certain tasks to the point where they allow people to attempt certain development tasks for which they would otherwise be ill-prepared.
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