[plt-scheme] Re: Visual Studio .NET ...easier than PLT Scheme

On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 12:15:31PM -0500, Joe Marshall wrote:
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> Jacob Matthews <jacobm at cs.uchicago.edu> writes:
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> > Joe Marshall wrote:
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> >> Isn't the point of higher-level languages to abstract out `boilerplate'?
> >
> > I think even a wizard that asks the user 10 questions and then just
> > spits out
> >
> > (wizard-result-fn ANS_1 ... ANS_10)
> >
> > as its generated code would be useful.
> >
> > So I don't think the 'wizards = boilerplate' equation is quite correct.
> 
> That's certainly a much better mechanism than the standard `visual
> studio' way.

That depends on whether you need to tweak the generated code. Spitting
out boilerplate is handy for "design patterns," where you use a standard
framework but change the details, at least if you do it well. Of course,
wizards tend to fail at the "doing it well" part.
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Bradd W. Szonye
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