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| From | Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> |
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| Subject | Re: Programming language and IDE design |
| Date | Thu, 24 Oct 2013 10:55:09 -0400 |
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>> Similarly foolish wisdom is seen in IDEs (Integrated Development
>> Environments) which allow the programmer to create hundreds of lines
>> of code with just a few clicks of the mouse. Thus instantly creating
>> a significant maintenance effort.
> 99% (or more) of generated code will never be touched by a human.
> Probably 80% of it even will never be looked at.
> I have never read anything which suggests to me that Dijkstra was - or
> would have been - against source code generators.
IIUC, the OP was referring to the use of things like templates.
I.e. case where the generated source code is then edited by the user.
DSLs, macros, compiler compilers, and other code generators are
completely different, since the generated code is constantly
re-generated: it's not "source" code.
Stefan
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Re: Programming language and IDE design "Jonathan Thornburg" <jthorn@astro.indiana.edu> - 2013-11-10 04:41 +0000
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Re: Programming language and IDE design George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2013-10-22 16:17 -0400
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Re: Programming language and IDE design "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2013-10-23 19:09 +0100
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Re: Programming language and IDE design Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2013-10-24 10:55 -0400
Re: Programming language and IDE design George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2013-10-24 19:57 -0400
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