I'm with William G. Davis in disagreeing with you on this. Code generation can mean that you've managed to express things in terms of a higher-level abstraction. I don't see the relevance of your distinction between code generated at runtime and that generated earlier.

It would be perfectly reasonable to invent a new language (whether a generic language or something more domain-specific), and have the implementation of the language compile it to perl code.

In fact a C compiler does exactly this: it generates an assembler program from the C code. This also I think answers the one issue I recognise from perrin's comment, on the danger of files getting out of sync if you hand-edit the intermediate results - it is a matter of expectation (I don't expect to edit the assembler source that the C compiler produces), reinforced by infrastructure (eg setting the generated files read-only) and protocol ("this is the procedure to change it").

Hugo

In reply to Re^2: (OT) Generated Code vs. Libraries by hv
in thread (OT) Generated Code vs. Libraries by Mutant

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