• renoX <renosky free.fr> Feb 12 2007
• "Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email)" <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> Feb 12 2007

renoX <renosky free.fr> writes:

Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email) Wrote:
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 Au contraire, I think it's a definite step in the right direction. 
 Writing programs that write programs is a great way of doing more with 
 less effort. 


As long as it works yes, but if you need to debug the result, you're most
likely going to suffer a lot..
Also this can leads to huge compile time due to code expansion (been there with
generated C++ code: 6h compilation time(!) and full compilation needed each
time due to the difficulty to track dependencies).

So it is a bit like TNT: a useful tool sure, but a dangerous one too.
renoX

"Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email)" <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:

renoX wrote:
 Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email) Wrote:
 []
 Au contraire, I think it's a definite step in the right direction. 
 Writing programs that write programs is a great way of doing more with 
 less effort. 


 As long as it works yes, but if you need to debug the result, you're most
likely going to suffer a lot..
 Also this can leads to huge compile time due to code expansion (been there
with generated C++ code: 6h compilation time(!) and full compilation needed
each time due to the difficulty to track dependencies).
 
 So it is a bit like TNT: a useful tool sure, but a dangerous one too.
 renoX


Compile times for metacode will reduce dramatically (to become a 
practical non-issue in most cases) through the technology that Walter is 
working on right now.

Let's not forget that TNT moderated by carbon gave us dynamite :o).


Andrei