Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:33:54 +0200, Ary Borenszweig thusly wrote: > language_fan wrote: > > "Practical" languages >> have lots of boiler-plate, and I can easily generate hundreds of lines >> of code with a couple of key combinations or mouse clicks. > > Can you give some examples? I can only think of some that generate some > lines of code, not hundreds.
For instance simple things like setters and getters for an aggregate class easily generate tens of lines of code (well, not only code lines, but also other kinds of editable lines). Like lutger said, all kinds of transformations also come in mind in this context. There could be even ORM mapping utilities which generate all the code for accessing the database structures.