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Re: Working Group Proposal

From:
Joshua N Pritikin
Date:
July 21, 2000 04:51
Subject:
Re: Working Group Proposal
Message ID:
20000721075117.B28285@ghostwheel.wks.na.deuba.com
On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 04:27:08PM -0700, brad@yahoo-inc.com wrote:
> does anyone have any substantive or even anecdotal data regarding 
> the feasability of using a "meta language" to generate code on this
> scale?  
> 
> it has a lot of "whiteboard" appeal, but it seems that in practice it
> might be extremely time-consuming and problematic, as opposed to just
> writing it in C.

XS (or swig) is a good example, no?

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