That pragmatic book is very keen on code generators. Distill the information to some variant on ASCII tables and then derive all the redundant forms from it as

That pragmatic book is very keen on code generators. Distill the information to some variant on ASCII tables and then derive all the redundant forms from it as a compilation step. I think that's the right approach. I'm totally up for generating C++ from JSON if that's the available data representation. So far, essentially everyone I've worked with has hated code generation in all forms. In language mechanisms may or may not be acceptable (C++ templates more likely to be OK than C macros). Outside language mechanisms - python writing source code during the build and similar - very hard to get past review. I'm curious whether that aligns with other people's experience.