Metaprogramming is the art of writing programs which write programs. Languages which offer syntax extensibility provide the normal paths to metaprogramming. Ruby offers excellent metaprogramming facilities through its eval() family of methods, the here-docs, open classes, blocks and procedures. Ruby is a language with very clean syntax, having the natural elegance of Lisp and extremely powerful metaprogramming facilities.
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