>>>Dragan mentioned COBOL. For a while I programmed VFP side by side with some COBOL/CICS programmers who could sit at a TSO termninal and knock off apps with thousands of lines of code in less than an hour by judiciously cutting and pasting from other apps that they had worked with every day for years.
>>>Because of their extraordinary expertise, they could keep up with my VFP output without breaking a sweat.
>>>
>>>As they say in golf, it's not the club... it's who's swinging it.
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>>Well I know a good swinger who wrote code generators... generated Cobol code from mFoxPlus :).
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>Strange nobody did code generator for NET in FoxPro.
>If it is to many repetive code then VFP9 could be used quiet nicely to produce it, based on some template code.
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>I used to use UI-Gen ages ago in Clipper 87. Had my own code templates inside while UI-Gen was doing
>donkey work for me quiet proudly. When I see code like Perty posted, first things that comes to my mind are
>meta tables, dictionaries, and text (code) generation thereafter ;)

Hi Sergio,
Probably because there are already code generators written in other languages and/or it is easier to write those kind of generator code in other languages. I even remember I wrote a code generator for foxpro 2.x using Turbo Prolog 2.0:)
Cetin