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The " old world " ethic stressed loyalty to the client , even at some cost to the legal system ; the " old WASP " ethic emphasized fidelity to legal institutions and their improvement , even at the cost of sometimes having to say no to clients . This has the effect of regularizing badly formatted HTML , at the cost of sometimes unintutive parses . Picking a text for this course has not been an easy thing to do - the choice has been whether to go for the dense , almost encyclopedic reference that will last you for decades at the cost of sometimes having too much detail and difficult reading or to choose a more digestible text that will have only limited use over the long run .