Software is not like books: you don’t sell them based on number of words. A book requires you to write a few thousand lines to make it valuable. After all, the buyer will check the number of pages in the book, and consider the size as an indicator of how much content is in there….
Writing programs takes time, but writing correct and fast programs is even more difficult. That is why there is so much badly written software in the market. Bugs are the result of sloppy and rushed code. Programs are frequently slower than they need to be as a result. In this situation, it sometimes seems smart…
Meta programming is a style of software development where one is able to modify programs automatically, based on rules that have been previously defined in the system. For example, suppose that one wants to create a graphical interface based on simple specifications. The UI code may be written as a complicated C program, which makes…