I finally got around to reading the Pragmatic Programmer book. One thing that really interested me was the section on Code Generation. So in a recent C++ project I was interfacing with postgres and there was a LOT of code repetition. The sql query, class members, getters/setters, response parsing logic. They all contained the same information. Perfect I thought, here was the ideal chance to give code generation a shot. My first incarnation was a very ugly perl script (aren’t they all .
