If you look not at the users themselves (ie ignore their existing personal habits) but at what they want to with their program, don't you think WYSIWYM would fit much better in many cases?No, it will not.
Most technical people, such as this audiance, is used to programming. Programming is a classic case of WYSIWY mean. The problem with WYSIWYM is that it requires a certain amount of faith, and a great amount of mental extrapolation. These are skills that need to be aquired, and not every mind is suited to perform them as well as other.
Now you, standing on the cathedral of the one who has already aquired them, say "but it's so easy! I'm so much more productive this way". To quote Zaphod's special brain care analist, "That is true, but mostly unimportant". Most people either don't want to go through the learning process, or don't have the time and the patience. Bear in mind that not even all the people who want to program manage to go through the process of learning it.
So we are left with word processing as a driving skill analogy. If you test people for field of view and parallel concentration before giving them a driver's license, you will get much better drivers, and less accidents. However, since you define, apriory, that anyone who wants to and can vest the money should be able to get a license, you can not perform these tests.
Shachar
-- Shachar Shemesh Open Source integration consultant Home page & resume - http://www.shemesh.biz/
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