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Meta-Programming and Model-Driven Meta-Program Development

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At the very beginning, our aim is to describe a scheme for the initial understanding of meta-programming in order to introduce the knowledge required for the thorough studies in the field later. We start from the statement which gives a very general definition and formulates the primary objectives of the field as follows:

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Štuikys, V., Damaševičius, R. (2013). Introduction. In: Meta-Programming and Model-Driven Meta-Program Development. Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing, vol 5. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4126-6_1

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