Chapter 9. Languages and tools
This chapter covers
- An introduction to languages that contain native metaprogramming constructs
- An overview of tools that provide dynamic programming facilities for C#
Throughout this book, you’ve seen C# used (and potentially abused!) to facilitate metaprogramming. In some cases, external components (like NRefactory and Cecil) were used because they provided functionality necessary to support metaprogramming. Although C# is a powerful programming language that you can use to create concise, flexible programs, at times in this book C# may have felt twisted and bent to service metaprogramming needs.
This isn’t too surprising, because you could argue that C# wasn’t designed with metaprogramming as a deep, core ...
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