clipka wrote:
> Likewise, metaprogramming can be used to implement OOP paradigms in a language
> that does not support them natively. Actually, that's how C++ started: The first
> C++ compilers generated C code.

I don't think my use of the term metaprogramming matches your use of the 
term metaprogramming. Simply writing in a language the computer doesn't 
natively understand isn't metaprogramming in the sense I meant it.

> But yes, metaprogramming does raise OO to the best of its potential: Reflection
> rules! :)

That's closer. When the structures of the program code itself are 
manipulable from inside the program, that's metaprogramming. When a language 
(like C) makes it harder to metaprogram than to just brute-force the code 
you want to implement, you're lacking something.

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