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Metaprogramming is the name of a management technique invented by Charles Simonyi (who also developed Hungarian Notation ) for organizing the work of a team of programmers. In a 2002 news item {Link without Title} , ''The Age'' noted: "Simonyi, 54, introduced the concept of metaprogramming at Microsoft, turning it into what people sometimes referred to as a software factory. This was something on which he had written a thesis. The metaprogramming concept did not work out in practice...." In the 1992 book '' Accidental Empires '' (ISBN 0-88730-855-4), Robert X. Cringely gave this description: "Simonyi's dissertation was an attempt to describe a more efficient method of organizing programmers to write software... the metaprogrammer was the designer, decision maker, and communication controller in a software development group.... individual progammers were allowed to make no design decisions about the project. All they did was write the code as described by the metaprogrammer.... A programmer with a problem or a question would take it to the metaprogrammer, who could come up with an answer or transfer the question to another programmer..." |
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