> You can have metaprogramming, but it's not the same level by any means. In the languages I've mentioned it is as the same level. Here are some examples - ht

> You can have metaprogramming, but it's not the same level by any means. In the languages I've mentioned it is as the same level. Here are some examples - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3125375 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3125375 > Take Perl, for example. You can't have robust metaprogramming on a language with an undecidable grammar I'm referring to Perl6 here which is (intended to be) self hosted via perl6 grammars & also comes with hygienic macros: - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl_6_rules#Grammars http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl_6_rules#Grammars - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl_6#Macros http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl_6#Macros While perl5 won't get this good you'll be surprised what metaprogramming can be done with it. NB. For an example of macro-like things here is a list of CPAN modules that make use of Devel::Declare - https://metacpan.org/requires/distribution/Devel-Declare?sort=[[2,1] https://metacpan.org/requires/distribution/Devel-Declare?sor...] > Read through the above link and you'll see the difference. I have and I remember reading it back in 2005 :) This doesn't affect the list of languages I mentioned earlier.