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Last year I learned about MyDef. I like the basic concept, but it did not fit my use case unfortunately. I also am not well versed in Perl and at least at the
by abenedic 8y ago
Last year I learned about MyDef. I like the basic concept, but it did not fit my use case unfortunately. I also am not well versed in Perl and at least at the time the documentation of the internals was too sparse for me, so I was not able to adapt it to fit my needs. But I do think people should look more into the idea of using preprocessors like MyDef and CPY.
I, like everyone else who has the need, wound up writing my own C++ preprocessor. I think there is a lot of merit to the idea of having a low level base language which is machine independent and using a high level syntactic sugar over it.
- hzhou321 8y agoI lately do realize that to be comfortable with MyDef, one need be versed in three languages -- the language you are writing, MyDef, and Perl. People seem more welcome to the idea of having new language replacing the old rather than a solution of taking advantage of existing tools. I think this is the same barrier of Knuth's literate programming. Despite how I find how much MyDef make life easier, others will not see the same if not ready. What I am hoping for is conversation. With conversation, I can have the motivation for documentation and others can understand and the barrier may dissolve.