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Name

Tony Rietwyk

Location

Melbourne, Australia

My experience / interests in Model-Driven Development

I am a programmer with 25 years experience. Unfortunately, very little of my work involves green fields projects that I could try MDD techniques.

I think the single biggest failure with programming is that we inflict complicated forms and UI’s on users, but still use ascii based text files ourselves!

The main problem with text files is that they don’t adequately capture why changes are made. I would like to just enter requirements, and have the code generated by satisfying those constraints.

My experience / interests in Code Generation

In the early 90s I wrote a COBOL preprocessor (using Vax Pascal) based on the C #include, #ifdef, etc syntax. Alas, I never copied the code when that machine was terminated.