RE: Efficacy of code generators

jt --

Good one.

But here's another side:

A code generator or CASE tool (as Paul Conte once said, CASE stands for
"Contrived Attempt to Sell Everything") can reduce or even eliminate coding
horrors (see "Code Complete" by Steve McConnell, Microsoft Press, for
examples) ... but then you have ...

DESIGN HORRORS! THEY, too, rear their head.

"Why did I hard-code that? WHY? WHY? WHAT was I thinking?"

-- Don "Who, of course, has NEVER made THAT mistake" Schenck



-----Original Message-----
From: jt [mailto:jt@ee.net]
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 10:12 PM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: RE: Efficacy of code generators


Just to one-up y'all...  I'm doing that on one I haven't even started
writing yet...!

(Okay.. top that.)


| -----Original Message-----
| From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
| [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Mark Allen
| Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 4:53 PM
| To: midrange-l@midrange.com
| Subject: RE: Efficacy of code generators
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|
| Doing that on one I wrote this MORNING!!!
|
| Mark Allen
| I.S. Manager
| Wilkes Telephone & Electric
| A Dycom Company
| Phone: (706) 678-9565
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| :-----Original Message-----
| :From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
| :[mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com] On Behalf Of Joel Fritz
| :Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 4:20 PM
| :To: 'midrange-lmidrangecom'
| :Subject: RE: Efficacy of code generators
| :
| :
| :Hmm...for me it's not years.  More like weeks or days. <g>
| :
| :> -----Original Message-----
| :> From: Pat Barber [mailto:mboceanside@worldnet.att.net]
| :> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 1:12 PM
| :> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
| :> Subject: Re: Efficacy of code generators
| :>
| :>
| :> A real test of a programmer is for him/her to have to go back to a
| :> program that they wrote 5-10 years earlier and hear the
| :famous words,
| :> "who in the hell wrote this ?"

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