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Thomas Mercer-Hursh
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Noting that one is asking the wrong question and that there is another way to think about the problem is something I frequently do. I think that is appropriate and useful ... just like it was back in the early days of event driven programming when people kept asking about techniques to force people to stay in fields with bad data instead of letting them navigate the screen freely. That doesn't mean that those who have a contrary position need to do anything more than note their position and we can all move on. It is still the case that it was not my intent, then or now, to turn this into a protracted debate about what is right or wrong. To be sure, that would be better in its own thread. But, even given the existence of such a thread, I think it is right to point out the alternative in the context of specific questions like this one since people reading this thread may not read the "theoretical" one.
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