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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: fac41,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public From: Nick Leaton Subject: Re: What is wrong with OO ? Date: 1996/12/11 Message-ID: <32AE849C.5716@calfp.co.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 203474172 x-nntp-posting-host: calfp.demon.co.uk references: <32A4659D.347A@shef.ac.uk> <32a5ceba.81462731@news.nstn.ca> <32a7ae3c.11882739@news.nstn.ca> <32AD05B0.6235@possibility.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.object,comp.software-eng x-mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4m) Date: 1996-12-11T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > 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. Sometimes this can be a superb techinique. For example interfacing with a DB. Write a schema file. Your code generator spits out code from the schema file. If you have a bug in your design, it is easy to change the generator, and fix all the relavent code. -- Nick