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Metaprogramming
It is a technique of writing programs that generate code, sometimes called meta-programs. These programs can generate tables of data on a smaller scale, boilerplate code for larger applications and abbreviate verbose statements in the code. Meta-programs are easy to maintain.
| First released | 1970s |