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Chip Salzenberg schreef: > Dr.Ruud: >> Chip Salzenberg: >>> 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) > > Ah, but you neither had to read nor maintain, only regenerate. Well, that is never entirely true of course. Out of the produced source code you learned how to put even cleverer tricks into the model file which would give you even more hooks to tweak with, etc. It was great fun. > That's a fine model; it's more like a compiler, with debugging of its > output only an occasional burden. Code-generation wizards, on the > other hand, which require you to own and maintain their output ... > they are the creation of somebody kinda like Satan. Only evil. At last you make me think of brain-dead macro recorders. Yes, I hated those, then forgot all about them. -- Affijn, Ruud "Gewoon is een tijger."Thread Previous | Thread Next