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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: 'withing' problem [code generation]
Date: 21 Nov 2001 06:20:35 +0000
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"Matthew Heaney" <mheaney@on2.com> writes:

> I don't understand this argument.  If you're using a code generator,
> then what difference does it make what code is generated?  If you
> care that much, then why don't you just write the code manually?

If you were using a complete code generator (from executable UML, in
some way, for example) this is true. But in that case Ada would be a
kind of low-level language the developers wouldn't normally look at.

If the CG is producing a framework that the developers have to slot
code into, it matters a lot that the code they've written and tested
isn't invalidated by some minor model change.