[Haskell-beginners] Generating Code To Embed in an Event Loop

[Darrin Thompson]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Stephen Tetley <stephen.tetley at gmail.com>wrote:

> Pragmatically, code generation works well in domains where you have a
> succint input format and many candidates to generate - parser
> generators like YACC or Haskell's Happy are prime examples. If you
> don't have many candidates for generating, writing good libraries in
> the low-level language seems a more profficient use of one's time.
>
>
Can you elaborate on why? Is it because code generation is a lot harder than
it looks? Or that it's a lot of tedious work for just one output program?

--
Darrin
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