>>>>>>>>There's nothing inherently wrong with code generators. After all, we all use one that is very flexible, but is extremely slow and tends to be buggy. You just have to understand their limitations e.g. the one-way ones that have shipped with various versions of Fox.
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>>>>>>Everyone has one or more code creation process(es). If yours is productive and reliable, who am I to say it's "wrong" or "bad practice"?
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>>>>>I'm not able to wrap my head around that statement. The end result then is that everything is acceptable. No?
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>>>>Only if it's productive and reliable.
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>>>Seems to me every bizarre thing I've ever seen seemed productive and reliable to the experience level of the person doing it at the time.
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>>How do you think all of today's best practices came about? From someone doing something differently, of course. If you prevent people from doing things differently, you prevent progress.
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>I'm not trying to prevent progress. I'm trying to prevent regression.

Sure, that's what everyone's trying to do. Trouble is, how do you tell the difference? (<-- rhetorical question)