Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
"Object-orientation" was invented in '60s and was deemed only of intellectual values, available only in experimental or heavy environments; C++ took it from research labs and put it in the hands of Joe Programmer. With success. Generic programming has been around since the '70s (albeit without that name) and deemed only of academic values; C++ took it and put it in the toolkit of Joe Programmer. With success. I have hopes it will eventually do the same for functional paradigm.
But is metacode (or equivalent) really about functional paradigm, or more about ways to do things easily at compile-time? You could build classes at compile-time with procedural-like code and maybe that would put the capability with more success in the hands of Jow Programmer than with something more like Lisp? I really don't know the answer... Regards, Nicolas