Directory of Metaprogramming Resources

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Metaprogramming (synonym: generative programming): a style of programming in which, in some way, a program writes or modifies some code in some language. Compilers and self-modifying programs are two examples of metaprograms.

Subcategories

• Compilers
• Conferences
• Generative
• Intentional
• Language Oriented
• Metaobject Protocols
• Quines
• Source Code Generators

Resources in This Category

• A Comparative Analysis of Meta-programming and Aspect-Orientation

  http://www.gray-area.org/Pubs/acmse-2003.pdf
  Investigation of language constructs to support improved separation of crosscutting concerns. By Jeffrey G. Gray, Assistant Professor, University of Alabama, Birmingham.

• Are You Missing out on Code Generation?

  http://www.devx.com/Java/Article/15511/
  Writing EJBs by hand wastes effort and time; using the passive wizards in today's IDEs is as bad. Solution: use active code generation. Learn why this is a good idea despite the FUD against it. DevX.

• Automated Code Generation

  http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?AutomatedCodeGeneration
  Page on the original (Ward) Cunningham and Cunningham, Inc., Wiki.

• Code Generation is a Design Smell

  http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CodeGenerationIsaDesignSmell
  Controversy page on the original (Ward) Cunningham and Cunningham, Inc., Wiki.

• Dynamic Languages Group - MIT AI Lab

  http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/dynlangs/
  Covers reflection, self-modifying code or mutable MOPs, Dylan, and aspect-oriented programming.

• Eclipse Modeling Project

  http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/
  Focuses on evolving and promoting model-based development technologies by providing unified set of modeling frameworks, tooling, standards implementations; EMF, modeling framework and code generator to build tools and other programs based on structured data model. Descriptions, documents, downloads.

• IPAD Pro

  http://www.xcprod.com/titan/
  Meta CASE tool. It allows developers to build CASE tools that allow end users to use graphical object manipulation to design and maintain end user systems. It incorporates a high level visual programming interface and provides multiplatform GUI and execution environment.

• ModelBased.net

  http://modelbased.net/
  Dedicated to tools and information related to model-driven system development, aiming at supporting OMG's vision of MDA.

• The Art of Metaprogramming, Part 1: Introduction to Metaprogramming

  http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-metaprog1/
  An under-used programming technique is writing programs that generate programs or program parts. Covers: why metaprogramming is needed, some components of it, building a code generator; language-sensitive macro programming in Scheme. IBM developerWorks.

• Tim Sheard's Page

  http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~sheard/
  Researches the design, implementation, use of metaprogramming systems, created MetaML, many links on functional metaprogramming, NSF papers. Portland State University, Computer Science Department.

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