Definition of "metaprogram" []

• A thinking pattern which determines what information a person takes note of and what information they screen out. (noun)
• A computer program that writes or manipulates other programs as data, or does the work at runtime that would otherwise be done at compile time. (noun)

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• "As we are running a program that uses an API to generate code, rather than just reading a static description of the code to generate from a file, we can metaprogram, building reusable code-generation tools in the interpreted language so the programmer is not forced to deal with the low-level virtual machine."
• "Memory management is a small part of the picture, but the real gains in these more dynamic languages come from different areas, particularly from a flexible type model and from the ability to metaprogram."