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edited Dec 12, 2019 at 18:59Metaprogramming refers to a variety of ways a program has knowledge of itself or can manipulate itself.
In languages like C#, reflection is a form of metaprogramming since the program can examine information about itself. For example returning a list of all the properties of an object.
In languages like ActionScript, you can evaluate functions at runtime to create new programs such as eval("x" + i). DoSomething() would affect an object called x1 when i is 1 and x2 when i is 2.
Finally, another common form of metaprogramming is when the program can...
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Metaprogramming is a programming technique in which computer programs have the ability to treat other programs as their data. It means that a program can be designed to read, generate, analyse or transform other programs, and even modify itself while running. In some cases, this allows programmers to … See more
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A simple example of a metaprogram is this POSIX Shell script, which is an example of generative programming See moreMacro systems
• Common Lisp and most Lisp dialects.
• Scheme hygienic macros
• MacroML See more1970s and 1980sMetaprogramming was popular using list processing languages such as LISP.1980sLISP hardware machines were popular and used for artificial intelligence applications.2019-10-16The article "Metaprogramming" was created on Wikipedia.2021-08-17The article "Metaprogramming" was last edited on Wikipedia.Some argue that there is a sharp learning curve to make complete use of metaprogramming features. Since metaprogramming … See more
The list of notable metaprogramming systems is maintained at List of Program Transformation Systems. See more
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