[CurtMonash]

It was 30ish years ago, so I don't recall details. But it seemed overhyped. The usual problem with tools that do a great job of generate code is that they do a great job of generating CERTAIN KINDS of code, but are unhelpful or even counterproductive with other parts of your development task. Certainly this was true in the 1980s, and back then the problem was exacerbated in that there weren't graceful ways to combine what was generated with what you had to write or modify by hand.

[carapace]

Okay but was it BS, or did it just sound like BS and actually it's important and useful (if a bit rough and early)? That's my main curiosity.