>>>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 ;)
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>But then I ask myself - OK, if I can write code generator, which basically reads metadata and translates them into code, why can't the runtime do the same without this intermediate step of generating the code. You know, something like "now you don't need to generate your form code, it's all in the scx/vcx and gets executed from there".
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>Ooops... did I say something wrong?

U r so backward!
You reached all the way back into the future! :))