metaprogramming

metaprogramming

English

Etymology

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Proto-Indo-European *me
Proto-Indo-European *meth₂?
Ancient Greek μετᾰ́ (metắ)
Ancient Greek μετᾰ- (metă-)lbor.
English meta-
English programming
English metaprogramming

    From meta- + programming.

    Noun

    metaprogramming (uncountable)

    1. (programming) The writing of computer programs that write or manipulate other programs or themselves as their data, or that perform operations at runtime that would typically be done at compile time.
      Hypernyms: computer programming, programming
      Hyponym: template metaprogramming

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