From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public From: Todd Hoff Subject: Re: What is wrong with OO ? Date: 1996/12/10 Message-ID: <32AD05B0.6235@possibility.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 203329190 references: <32A4659D.347A@shef.ac.uk> <32a5ceba.81462731@news.nstn.ca> <32a7ae3c.11882739@news.nstn.ca> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Possibility Outpost mime-version: 1.0 reply-to: tmh@possibility.com newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.object,comp.software-eng x-mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) Date: 1996-12-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Piercarlo Grandi wrote: > Perhaps the reverse: if the tools were really advanced, perhaps > including a program generator (and despite claims to the contrary no > such thing has been yet produced), then high level design activity would > be almost all the project. If you mean a magic machine that eats a spec and spits out perfect code for a target then you are right, no such thing has been produced. But i have created many times, as have others, domain specific languages where custom made code generators can be plugged in that automate large chunks of a system. Programmers can specify what they want in the language and a few people in the project can work on the code generators for the features. Works like a charm. Unfortunatetly it is not "coding" so most managers and programmers see such approaches as a waste of time. ------------------------------------------------------------- tmh@possibility.com | The loyalty of small men can be http://www.possibility.com | bought cheaply, for greed has no | pride. - Michael Kube-McDowell