Jon Udell took the occasion of my posting Cog to write about code generation. It includes this great quote attributed to Andrew Hume:
Programs that write programs are the happiest programs in the world.
Jon Udell took the occasion of my posting Cog to write about code generation. It includes this great quote attributed to Andrew Hume:
Programs that write programs are the happiest programs in the world.
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hey, I ran across your post randomly and checked out cog. Code generation is definitely useful and fun. These days Java programmers can use Eclipse for all sorts of code generation magic, mainly stubs. GUI builders also do well. In both cases, the generated code *is* treated as the source; the generator being the development environment and its standard generation tool. Obviously these tools are much more limited than embedding python, but they are popular for hitting 90% of the need.
What are your thoughts on the IDE front?
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