These days, 'code generation' is so well established that Wikipedia has a new meaning for it - i.e. Back then, it was practically unheard of to do this. Having learnt all compiling languages like FORTRAN and PL/I, my second job - way before the PC, let alone the dreaded CASE tools - was to build a code generator to create CRUD applications. At that time, "machine" meant a CPU instruction set - so this was machine operation code being generated. Having digested your source code, the compiler would pump out the "code" for the target machine. When I was a lad, code generation referred to the final phase of a compiler.
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