write-once read-never?

something that was not perl ;)

in ~2005 i lead a team to build horse-betting terminals for Singapore, and there server could only understand CORBA. So.. i modelled the needed protocol in python, which generated a set of specific python files - one per domain - which then generated the needed C folders-of-files. Like 500 lines of models -> 5000 lines 2nd level -> 50000 lines C at bottom. Never read that (once the pattern was established and working).

But - but - it was 1000% controllable and repeatable. Unlike current fancy "generators"..