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metaprogramming en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Ancient Greek μετᾰ́ (metắ) Ancient Greek μετᾰ- (metă-)lbor. English meta- English programming English metaprogramming From meta- + programming.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) 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

programming · computer programming

Hyponyms

template metaprogramming

Relateds

metaprogram

Translations (5)

fi metaohjelmointi (writing of computer programs that write or manipulate programs as data) · de Metaprogrammierung (writing of computer programs that write or manipulate programs as data) · ka მეტაპროგრამირება (writing of computer programs that write or manipulate programs as data) · cs metaprogramování (writing of computer programs that write or manipulate programs as data) · pt metaprogramação (writing of computer programs that write or manipulate programs as data)