Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> On 8/8/2011 7:01, Warp wrote:
> >> If you /need/ to generate large chunks of code automatically, you're
> >> writing your program wrong.
> >
> >    You could use the same argument for any of the several features in your
> > text editor that you, personally, never use.

> I'd more say that if you need to generate large chunks of code 
> automatically, your programming language is too low-level for the code 
> you're writing. Boilerplate is a sign that your language needs to be able to 
> automate the boilerplate.

  I don't think nemesis was restricting his reference to using templates
to generate content to program code. You could have all kinds of templates
to generate all kinds of documents, such as html, latex, etc.

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                                                          - Warp

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