title: Is using something like the MvcContrib Grid a step backwards in code readability?
body: <p>I mean, now we have all this movement towards separating your html markup from your code as much as possible using modern template engines (in the old days programmers usually just kept concatenating strings in php, which was terrible.)</p>
  
  <p>Then I look at a co-worker's code for generating an html table, and it looks like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;% Html.Grid(Model).Columns(column =&gt; {
      column.For(x =&gt; Html.ActionLink("Edit", "Edit", new { id = x.Id })).Attributes(width =&gt; "30px").DoNotEncode();
      column.For(x =&gt; Html.ActionLink("Delete", "Delete", new { id = x.Id }, new { @class = "delete" })).Attributes(width =&gt; "95px").DoNotEncode();
      column.For(x =&gt; x.Id).Named("Code");
      column.For(x =&gt; x.Name).Named("Name").HeaderAttributes(align =&gt; "left");
      column.For(x =&gt; x.CPF).Named("CPF");
  })
  .Attributes(width =&gt; "100%", border =&gt; "0", cellpadding =&gt; "0", cellspacing =&gt; "0", @class =&gt; "data-table")
  .Empty("No users found!")
  .RowStart(row =&gt; string.Format("&lt;tr class='row{0}'&gt;", row.IsAlternate ? "-alternating" : ""))
  .Render();
  %&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>He thinks it's awesome, I think it's quite ugly, so I'd like to know more people's opinion.</p>