SPUG: Self-generating code: yea or nay? (was: Dijsktra is Dead)

Jonathan Gardner jgardn at alumni.washington.edu
Fri Aug 9 02:00:02 CDT 2002


On Thursday 08 August 2002 10:25 pm, Richard Anderson wrote:
> Speaking of unstructured coding, I recently updated the online
> grep/map/sort tutorial and added the example below.  This got me thinking:
> are there any cases where self-generating code is "better" (in some sense)
> than the alternatives?  I feel the answer is no - can anyone provide a
> counter-example?
>

While it's not *SELF*-generating code, I am writing a perl script at work that 
will make bash scripts that will run SQL scripts...

-- 
Jonathan Gardner
jgardn at alumni.washington.edu

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