On 09/08/2011 05:48 PM, Warp wrote:
> 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.

LaTeX is program code too. ;-)

As for HTML, that's why there are tools to generate HTML for you.

Now, if you could make it really easy to access those tools from your 
text editor - or any other tools you might have (compilers, 
interpreters, previewers, etc.), that's definitely worth having.

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