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"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?
cn
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Friday, November 01, 2002 12:33 AM
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).
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Friday, November 01, 2002 9:23 AM
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.
Chris Sells,
Saturday, November 02, 2002 7:02 PM
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
Adam Cogan,
Sunday, November 03, 2002 5:49 AM
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
Xin Zhao,
Thursday, March 22, 2007 7:01 AM
Nice site!
Nikolet,
Wednesday, March 19, 2008 4:20 PM
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