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Yo dawg, do you need a programming language inside your programming language?

• exDM69 10y ago
  Yes. Otherwise you'll end up with an ugly Python or Perl script that generates code, coupled with ugly build system hacks to make it work. This will happen sooner or later.
  • DonHopkins 10y ago
    The Java culture fetishizes code generation. It's like somebody decreed "We want to take over the world, and one measure of that is lines of code. So there should be a hell of a lot more Java code: start writing Java code that generates more Java code!"
    • acjohnson55 10y ago
      Go culture, too, for that matter.
• LnxPrgr3 10y ago
  How else are you going to do stuff like this? https://github.com/phresnel/metatrace https://github.com/phresnel/metatrace I'm just sad that Java's accidental compute system managed to be uglier (and apparently far less useful) than C++'s. The language could use some accidental features to counter the lack of intentional ones.