Metaprogramming is the process of writing computer programs that treat programs as data,
enabling them to analyze or transform existing programs or generate new ones. While the …

Assertions play an important role in the construction of robust software. Their use in
programming languages dates back to the 1970s. Eiffel, an object-oriented programming …

When scripts in untyped languages grow into large programs, maintaining them becomes
difficult. A lack of types in typical scripting languages means that programmers must (re) …

Programming language design benefits from constructs for extending the syntax and
semantics of a host language. While C's string-based macros empower programmers to …

Existing approaches to extend a programming language with syntactic sugar often leave a
bitter taste, because they cannot be used with the same ease as the main extension …

A programmable programming language Page 1 62 COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM | MARCH
2018 | VOL. 61 | NO. 3 IN THE IDEAL world, software developers would analyze each problem …

High-performance computing applications, such as auto-tuners and domain-specific
languages, rely on generative programming techniques to achieve high performance and …

The creation of a programming language calls for guiding principles that point the
developers to goals. This article spells out the three basic principles behind the 20-year …

The C preprocessor has received strong criticism in academia, among others regarding
separation of concerns, error proneness, and code obfuscation, but is widely used in …

Many programming problems call for turning geometrical thoughts into code: tables,
hierarchical structures, nests of objects, trees, forests, graphs, and so on. Linear text does …