>I didn't get the email the it was jump all over MikeH day.

It is not supposed to be that...I am simply picking up a discussion that Mike and I had last week....

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A good example of what JVP was discussing in terms of being able to discuss your rationale for a decision was a discussion I had the other day with a coworker. He was asking me what I thought about a list of potential classes he was thinking of attending. He liked my answer, part because of the answer, but a bigger part was that he liked my thinking for arriving at the answer. It was a view he hadn't considered, but agreed that it was a good rationale.
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You have hit the nail on the head. Nice anecdote!


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As far as application generators. I've read articles discussing the demise of the programmer due to generators for the last 20 years. They don't work. Plain and simple. And here I'm talking about generators made for low level programmers. I can't even imagine a generator that would work for the type of person you're talking about
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This issue caught me by surprise because Mike, being a programmer is/was advocating a code-generator POV. This is what peaked my curiousity. IMO, it is a slam-dunk argument toward the negative side on this issue. Still, if somebody has a POV that gives creedance to the other side of the issue, I am all ears.