OT: on IDEs and code writing on steroids

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Georg Wrede" <georg.wrede at iki.fi> wrote in message 
news:gv4t8t$1r49$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> Suppose (purely hypothetically) that the .NET assembly system were 
>> changed to allow the source for a D/C++ style of source-level template to 
>> be embedded into the assembly. Then they'd be able to do D/C++ style 
>> source-level template/code-generation. Right?
>
> I assume, actually presume, that would take the better part of a decade.
>
>> Now obviously the big problem with that is it would only be usable in
>> the same language it was originally written in.
>
> That actually depends. Done the M$ way, it would. Done properly, it would 
> work in any language. But then, that would mean a rewrite of the entire 
> CLR, wouldn't it?
>

Actually, I only intended that part of it as a lead-in to my idea about 
templates/generics working on an AST-level instead of source-level (D/C++ 
templates) or bytecode-level (C# generics).