We continue our dive into The Pragmatic Programmer and debate when is it text manipulation vs code generation as Joe can’t read his bill, Michael makes a painful recommendation, and Allen’s gaming lives up to Southern expectations.
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There are two types of code generators:
You get to pick how accurate you want the generators to be. Maybe it writes 80% of the code for you and you do the rest by hand.
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