Why I Dislike Code Generators

Those of you who follow the midrange.com lists probably are aware that I'm not a big fan of application code generators. This includes (but is not limited to) ... * Case Tools (AS/SET, Synon, etc) * EGL * SQL Pre-processors (RPG SQL, COBOL SQL, etc) * JSP (to a limited extent) * Various 3rd party application generators The reason is simple ... the code you write is not the code that executes.