I think you're not aware of the Cocoa development culture that spawned Atlas/Cappucino. People in this culture don't tend to build the kind of endless, mindles

I think you're not aware of the Cocoa development culture that spawned Atlas/Cappucino. People in this culture don't tend to build the kind of endless, mindless forms you're talking about. They build real apps. And they don't generate code--they generate linked objects (freeze-dried in .nib/.xib and now .cib? files) that are unfrozen at runtime. If you had to generate a whole bunch of mindless forms, you're right--metaprogramming solutions would be a big win.