Stupid Job Posts: "No WYSIWYG Tool"

Am I treading on dangerous ground? (10.30.2006 Update: turns out I'm not the only one) I know that the phrase "without the use of a WYSIWG tool" is common in job postings in order to express the need for talent and experience - but to anyone who actually has experience in production level web design and development, either as a grunt or a manager, this phrase is, well, stupid.

Yes, you need expert level knowledge of raw code, and must. But to think that development these days is or must be done via Notepad is ridiculous! If it is, and if some "development team" insists on this, here's what I think:

• you have a ridiculously inefficient process
• you are stuck in some purist notion that is good for academia, bad for business

Yes, I can do x/HTML in Notepad - that's how I started, way back in 1995, I can do ASP/.Net, JavaScript, CSS etc. etc. code in notepad, but do I? Hell no. I'll let the tool do the standard stuff, and then I'll dig into raw code - only if necessary.

It's time this requirement is rephrased. And yes you must welcome WYSIWYG tools in your business environment, in fact you must add this as a requirement - expertise in an IDE will almost certainly result in productivity.

Here's suggested verbiage for such posting:

• You must have expert level knowledge of raw [insert languages here] code
• You must have extensive experience in [insert wysiwg/ide tool here], or similar IDE tools in a single developer or team development environment.
  

Efficiency and productivty. Always good for business.