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Disadvantages of programmatic authoring

Programmatic authoring is not feasible in many main stream languages Java, C++, C, Pascal, Perl, ... Programmatic authoring requires good programming skills in the chosen programming languages A niche for only few authors Programmatic authoring is relatively far from mainstream WWW technologies Hard to convince decision makers that it may be applicable

Programmatic authoring will remain to be a narrow discipline for relatively few power users.