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It is useful if you are able to generate code from it. I know one big software company (more than 3000 employee) that generate 90% of all it's code base (~20M l

It is useful if you are able to generate code from it. I know one big software company (more than 3000 employee) that generate 90% of all it's code base (~20M lines of code).

charlesdm 10y ago
I bet they sell quality software..
- alemhnan 10y ago
  They provide value for a relevant number of enterprise customers, so somehow yes.
- JustSomeNobody 10y ago
  No way of knowing unless we can exam it. Could be the best stuff ever.
- JustSomeNobody 10y ago
  No way of knowing unless we can exam it. Could be the best stuff ever.
TeMPOraL 10y ago
I wonder how that company pulled this one off. In my experience, UML diagrams end up either too shallow to be useful for code generation, or so dense that they're totally useless for communication with non-technical stakeholders.
- alemhnan 10y ago
  I don't know the details so I couldn't say. I was surprised as well to be honest. I talked briefly with one of the owners, he did know quite in a deep way what he was talking about. A lot of emphasis for the process, using new technologies but without the 'madness' that we see usually in the Javascript world.
sidlls 10y ago
Must be some pretty trivial software, since 90% of the code base is apparently class and function declarations filled with empty or pointless (get/set) OO garbage.
- alemhnan 10y ago
  Some enterprise software, most of the patterns are well know and the customization point are well defined. I would describe more as a well know domain with clear constraints than trivial software. They generate a lot of code also for high critical real time software (avionics and space) but that is not really trivial.
  - sidlls 10y ago
    I'm skeptical the code generators are used for the actual function bodies at any level. That's 90% of any non-trivial code, not function and class declarations and stubs.
- alemhnan 10y ago
  Some enterprise software, most of the patterns are well know and the customization point are well defined. I would describe more as a well know domain with clear constraints than trivial software. They generate a lot of code also for high critical real time software (avionics and space) but that is not really trivial.

It is useful if you are able to generate code from it. I know one big software company (more than 3000 employee) that generate 90% of all it's code base (~20M lines of code).

charlesdm 10y ago

I bet they sell quality software..

alemhnan 10y ago
They provide value for a relevant number of enterprise customers, so somehow yes.
JustSomeNobody 10y ago
No way of knowing unless we can exam it. Could be the best stuff ever.
JustSomeNobody 10y ago
No way of knowing unless we can exam it. Could be the best stuff ever.

TeMPOraL 10y ago

I wonder how that company pulled this one off. In my experience, UML diagrams end up either too shallow to be useful for code generation, or so dense that they're totally useless for communication with non-technical stakeholders.

alemhnan 10y ago
I don't know the details so I couldn't say. I was surprised as well to be honest. I talked briefly with one of the owners, he did know quite in a deep way what he was talking about. A lot of emphasis for the process, using new technologies but without the 'madness' that we see usually in the Javascript world.

sidlls 10y ago

Must be some pretty trivial software, since 90% of the code base is apparently class and function declarations filled with empty or pointless (get/set) OO garbage.

alemhnan 10y ago
Some enterprise software, most of the patterns are well know and the customization point are well defined. I would describe more as a well know domain with clear constraints than trivial software. They generate a lot of code also for high critical real time software (avionics and space) but that is not really trivial.
- sidlls 10y ago
  I'm skeptical the code generators are used for the actual function bodies at any level. That's 90% of any non-trivial code, not function and class declarations and stubs.
alemhnan 10y ago
Some enterprise software, most of the patterns are well know and the customization point are well defined. I would describe more as a well know domain with clear constraints than trivial software. They generate a lot of code also for high critical real time software (avionics and space) but that is not really trivial.