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by dkersten 5223 days ago
He mentioned generating code for an embedded system. In that particular situation what you suggest may not be possible.

On the other hand what would be possible (and I've done this a few times before) is write a program or script (I like writing it in Python) that takes the .xls/.csv/.txt/.json file (which is pure data, can be edited in many programs etc) and generates the C/C++/whatever code from that. Basically the best of both worlds.