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		jwilliams on May 12, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Automatic programming: write code that writes code You can build successive abstractions using meta-programming. All you're talking about is taking your abstraction and calling it a "tool".

gouranga on May 13, 2012 [–]

You can but you introduce a "forward-only" semantic translation prior to compilation which changes the meaning of the code irreversably.

A basic abstraction remains untouched in the underlying implementation. It's just a call away.

There are semantic and technical differences between abstraction and meta-programming.

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