Ben Darnell

thought this comment on reddit was funny, "With all due respect, humans also aren't meant to be single, childless, spend 60 hours a week working and migrate from their birth town to some appartment in Silicon Valley." http://reddit.com/info... - Karl Rosaen

"Bigger is just something you have to live with in Java. Growth is a fact of life. Java is like a variant of the game of Tetris in which none of the pieces can fill gaps created by the other pieces, so all you can do is pile them up endlessly." - ⓞnor

Code generation is metaprogramming, but isn't "provided by Java" -- it's something people have to build on the side from scratch. (I've been working on a Java code generator for a number of years now, BTW) Java is actually somewhat hostile to code generation (eg: no #line directive, and JSR-45 is teh sux0rz), and the growing popularity of IDEs in the past few years has made it more difficult because IDE users expect their IDE to do the building, but the IDEs don't have simple mechanisms for plugging in code generators. - Laurence Gonsalves