3 ms·I think it was probably more the functional programming. You can do metaprogramming even in PHP.by donaq 18y agoI think it was probably more the functional programming. You can do metaprogramming even in PHP.tomjen 18y agoYou can do meta programming in Assembly too, but it is much more common in Lisp.anc2020 18y agoRight, but I meant generating code at compile time with macros which take code as a data structure as their input. PHP doesn't have that.