> If programmers insist on having a "purist" type of attitude towards
> what has been undoubtedly shown to be a useful tool, and refuse to even
> consider it simply because they care only about how well the program
> works and not at all about how easy it is to use, then they do the
> program development a disservice, IMO.
 
Not at all. They only do a disservice when they make it impossible for
*other* programmers to add the features users want. The absolute #1 goal
for programmers SHOULD be program correctness. Ease of use may very well be
#2, but #1 is absolutely correctness. A pretty program which crashes and
eats message bases is less useful than an ugly program which doesn't.
 
Wes

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