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Chip Salzenberg schreef: > Tom Christiansen quoted the Camel: >> It has been said(*) that programs that write programs >> are the happiest programs in the world. >> * By Andrew Hume, the famous Unix philosopher. > > Programs that write programs may be happy ... but people who have to > read and, heaven forfend, _maintain_ programs written by programs > are, without doubt, the damned of Computania. My best coding memories are still attached to metaprogramming, specifically Clarion for DOS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarion_(programming_language) Maintenance was real easy: change the model (templates) and possibly some include files (embeds), hit the generate button, and the full application was regenerated and compiled. We even did that while demonstrating the application: when an idea from the audience was real good, we could adapt the model, regenerate, and proceed the demo. s/rails/infrastructure/ -- Affijn, Ruud "Gewoon is een tijger."Thread Previous | Thread Next