meta-programming

This is how stress changes the meta-programming of the brain, by changing the range of the NO signals.

A Question of Value: What Does Cognitive Neuroscience Really Contribute? JLK 2009

In my last Ruby Matters blog post, I talked about meta-programming in Ruby, contending that Ruby gives you "places to put your stuff".

Ruby Matters: Meta-programming, Synthesis, and Generation Neal Ford 2007

Lots of the design patterns are almost trivially easy to implement with meta-programming, but they didn't do that in the Smalltalk examples.

Ruby Matters: Meta-programming, Synthesis, and Generation Neal Ford 2007

I always wondered about meta-programming in Smalltalk and how that compares to Ruby, and Where to Put Stuff in Smalltalk.

Ruby Matters: Meta-programming, Synthesis, and Generation Neal Ford 2007

I was puzzled as to why the Gang of Four book which had examples in both C++ and Smalltalk didn't have more meta-programming.

Ruby Matters: Meta-programming, Synthesis, and Generation Neal Ford 2007

Which is why I was puzzled about the lack of of more meta-programming solutions in Smalltalk.

Ruby Matters: Meta-programming, Synthesis, and Generation Neal Ford 2007

For me, Ruby has a great combination of succinct expressiveness and super powerful meta-programming support.

Ruby Matters: Language Beauty Part 2 Neal Ford 2007

Having spent the last few months all warm and cuddly with the Groovy source code I don't believe that meta-programming in Java is that far off from what you can do in Ruby.

Ruby Matters: Frameworks, DSLs, and Dietzler's Rule Neal Ford 2007

You cannot do this with Java Frameworks without going to something complex like aspects, and that just solves one of the types of meta-programming you can do.

Ruby Matters: Frameworks, DSLs, and Dietzler's Rule Neal Ford 2007

Yet that surgical use of one of the kinds of meta-programming that Ruby allows eliminates hundreds of lines of code.

Developer Productivity Mean vs. Median Neal Ford 2007