Meta-programming is the writing of computer programs with the ability to treat programs as their data. It means that a program could be designed to read, generate, analyze and/or transform other programs, and even modify itself while running.
Meta-programming is the writing of computer programs with the ability to treat programs as their data. It means that a program could be designed to read, generate, analyze and/or transform other programs, and even modify itself while running.
In some cases, this allows programmers to minimize the number of lines of code to express a solution (hence reducing development time)[citation needed], or it gives programs greater flexibility to efficiently handle new situations without recompilation.
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