On 6/29/05, Durham David R Jr Ctr 805 CSPTS/SCE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Most autogenerated code is less programmer friendly than it could > > be, it's purpose being to be easily created rather than read and > > maintained. > > I call throwing out the baby with the bathwater. The "unreadable" code
I'd never do that. You've obviously never read my blog: http://uab.blogspot.com/2005/05/art-of-bathing-very-small-children.html > that is being spoken of, I presume, is basically UI stuff. IMO, UI > code has a tendency towards being difficult to follow regardless of how > it was generated. Anyway, that's only one type of IDE-generated code. True, but a very real sort, nonetheless. > Probably the most useful code generation available to good editors is > code completion, and it's a big time and frustration saver, especially I understand code completion but reject it as an example of good auto-generated code. It is programmer code stored and retrieved by the programmer for the programmer. It is not auto-generated. > for new programmers. Beyond that, some examples of fully readable code > generation are File templates and Macros (Live templates in IDEA > parlance). > > As an example, when I want to right a debug statement, I simply type: > > debug > > and hit 'tab'. IntelliJ then writes the following: > > if (log.isDebugEnabled()) { > log.debug(); > } > > I then type my log statement and hit enter. Much faster than typing the > whole thing out or even cutting and pasting. > > Here's the IntelliJ Live template if anyone is interested: > > if (log.isDebugEnabled()) { > log.debug($VAR$); > }$END$ > > > That's one, overly simple, example of very readable IDE-generated code. I stick to my assertion that it is not auto-generated. It might be inserted by the IDE, but it is not written by the IDE. > Just to finish this post, the biggest mistake I see being made wrt IDE's > is to become completely dependent on them. For example, it's worthwhile > to have IDE independent build processes and unit testing. Now, here is a point where I can agree with you. Our deployment builds at work are done in ant for just exactly the purpose of being independent from specific IDEs. Simon -- www.simonpeter.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
