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From a guy at work:

The readability of generated code is inversely proportional to the readability of the code which generated it.

The first law of software engineering (and until I heard the one above the only one I thought existed) is:

((U+C+I) x (10-S))/20 x A x 1/(1-sin(F/10))

Seriously, though - is it better to have readable generated code or readable generation code?