metaprogramming

English

Etymology

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

Related terms

• metaprogram

Translations

writing of computer programs that write or manipulate programs as data

Czech: metaprogramování n Finnish: metaohjelmointi Georgian: მეტაპროგრამირება (meṭaṗrogramireba) German: Metaprogrammierung f Portuguese: metaprogramação f

References

• metaprogramming on Wikipedia.Wikipedia