More thoughts on Code Generation
"In short it came down to the fact that typing code
statements is time consuming, boring and error prone, and has nothing to do with
programming, which is defining algorithms, data-structures and functionality
specifications, in a language independent way."
"I really feel sorry for those people who do not understand
what power code generation really has. They are doomed to do boring work which
can be done by computers in a fraction of the time without any
error."
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"I think code generators are an extension of frameworks.
With a framework (like .NET, Java, etc...) you've got a bunch of funcitonality
pre-built for you -- this saves you time. With a code generator, you've got the
ability to customize pre-built functionality. And you do it in a lot less time
and with less debugging required. That's value."
[Patrick
Steele's .NET Blog]
I think people need to realize that every time a new
programming language is released, the amount of code you have to write
decreases. Assembly -> C -> C++ -> C#, each hop resulted in
less code to write. By using code generation you are simply following the
trend of programming evolution, less time on grunt work coding and more time on
what really matters like design and business logic.
-James