Friday, Nov 1, 2002, 12:33 AM
Code that begets code
Here. From cn: "Chris Sells, who actually created a code generation product, was unable to convince me of the importance of code generation. Why did one of my friends succeed where the other failed?"
Rebuttal, please?
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Atleast from the reuse standpoint, he is right. I havent been able to reuse too much of my "object oriented designs" in my career. Actually I dont find anything to rebut here - John just seems to have found a better reason for using code generation while you (Chris) started out with a different objective for code generation in mind. Ultimately your tool survives - people just seem to find more & more uses for it. I think thats a Good Thing (TM).
Friday, Nov 1, 2002, 9:23 AM
Chris Sells:
I'm actually missing JohnL's distinction. I wrote and wrote about the power of using higher-level metadata to generate code, data, text, et al.
Saturday, Nov 2, 2002, 7:02 PM
Adam Cogan:
Just on this topic of Code Generators. I came across one that I was impressed by http://www.rdptools.com/WhatIsRdp.aspx
Be interested in your thoughts or if there is a better one....
Adam
www.ssw.com.au
Be interested in your thoughts or if there is a better one....
Adam
www.ssw.com.au
Sunday, Nov 3, 2002, 5:49 AM
Xin Zhao:
I have spent quiet sometime working both with Code Generators as well as ORM tools.
Although both had advantages and disadvantages I found Code Generation to be a much better methodology for small to medium sized projects.
This is for two main reasons.
1. Performance. ORM is terribly slow due to reflection. And there is no real way around this. Whats worse ORM lets you use weak types which can lead to very messy code.
2. Development effort. Generating code requires 60% less effort in general and acheives the same results.
Xin Zhao
http://www.codeauthor.org
Although both had advantages and disadvantages I found Code Generation to be a much better methodology for small to medium sized projects.
This is for two main reasons.
1. Performance. ORM is terribly slow due to reflection. And there is no real way around this. Whats worse ORM lets you use weak types which can lead to very messy code.
2. Development effort. Generating code requires 60% less effort in general and acheives the same results.
Xin Zhao
http://www.codeauthor.org
Thursday, Mar 22, 2007, 7:01 AM
Nikolet:
Nice site!
Wednesday, Mar 19, 2008, 4:20 PM
