Yes, but they get very ugly when you have a lot of control structures. Jeff prefers to move these into code, see here: http://twitter.com/codinghorror/statuses/1154609179

Jeff is presumably choosing to build his reusable HTML widgets in functions, which is one valid way to do things.

Here's a good overview of all options available to ASP.NET MVC: http://www.lostechies.com/blogs/jimmy_bogard/archive/2009/01...