metaprogramming

English

Etymology

meta- +‎ programming

Noun

metaprogramming (uncountable)

1. (programming) Writing of computer programs that write or manipulate other programs (or themselves) as their data, or that do part of the work at runtime that would otherwise be done at compile time.

Hypernyms

• computer programming, programming

Hyponyms

• template metaprogramming

Related terms

• metaprogram

Translations

writing of computer programs that write or manipulate other programs (or themselves) as their data

• Czech: metaprogramování n
• Finnish: metaohjelmointi
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Metaprogrammierung f
• Portuguese: metaprogramação f

References

• metaprogramming on Wikipedia.Wikipedia