After I gave my talk at Google a guy came up and told me that David Heinemeier Hansson, the inventor of the incredibly popular Rails framework, mentioned on his blog that he was influenced in that work by Code Generation in Action.
I figured it would be good PR to get a quote from him for the back of the book if there was ever another printing or edition. So I asked him, and here is what he sent back:
"Jack does a fantastic job of illuminating the world of code generation. Whether you have code building code for compilation with the static languages or for run-time interpretation with the dynamic languages, this is a great book for taking your thinking about programming to another level. Many of the ideas and thoughts presented in this book were applied in my work on Ruby on Rails."
This really makes me happy and proud. A big part of what created Web 2.0 was the advent of new lightweight frameworks, and in particular Rails. I'm glad that I could play some part in that, if even a small one.
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