metaprogram

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noun A thinking pattern which determines what information a person takes note of and what information they screen out.
noun programming A computer program that writes or manipulates other programs as data, or does the work at runtime that would otherwise be done at compile time.

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As we are running a program that uses an API to generate code, rather than just reading a static description of the code to generate from a file, we can metaprogram, building reusable code-generation tools in the interpreted language so the programmer is not forced to deal with the low-level virtual machine.

Snell-Pym » HYDROGEN: Code generation 2009
Memory management is a small part of the picture, but the real gains in these more dynamic languages come from different areas, particularly from a flexible type model and from the ability to metaprogram.

ONLamp.com: The Pragmatic Programmers Interview Chris Jobling 2004
Memory management is a small part of the picture, but the real gains in these more dynamic languages come from different areas, particularly from a flexible type model and from the ability to metaprogram.

Archive 2004-06-01 Chris Jobling 2004