Programs or functions that alter the behavior of other programs or functions.
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Automatic programming: write code that writes code [closed]
After reading the book The Pragmatic Programmer, one of the arguments I found most interesting was "write code that writes code".
I tried searching over the net for some more explanations or articles ...
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Is monkeypatching considered good programming practice?
I've been under impression, that monkeypatching is more in quick and dirty hack category, rather than standard, good programming practice. While I'd used from time to time to fix minor issues with 3rd ...
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C++: Metaprogramming with a compiler API rather than with C++ features
This started out as a SO question but I realized that it is quite unconventional and based on the actual description on the websites, it might be better suited to programmers.se since the question has ...
