Fallacy of Code Generation

December 17, 2007 | 0 Minute Read
This post was originally posted on my old blog.

Why is code generation bad? Because once you start with code gen, people seem to forget that generated code should fall under all the laws & rules of code anywhere. -Ayende

This quote is from an interesting thread on Ayendes blog. As usual Ayende is quite provocative by imposing that Microsoft applied the "We'll just code-gen our way out of here!"-Tactic in Linq to SQL.