> The best programmers I know use free/open source software... > [ snip ] > Being reliant upon software to code is a sign of ineptitude. that sounds like a contradiction to me if they were ept, they'd write machine language, right? ;o) perhaps let's revisit an older article by ben henick -- Back to Basics http://www.alistapart.com/stories/basics/ and as joel mentioned earlier today, the aardvark has just published a new article that hits this very topic, the, um, code that some people using wygiwyd (what you get is what you deserve) editors... http://evolt.org/article/WrongWayGoBack/20/22547/index.html rudy