Expert-007

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1. 1.▲
   by Expert-007 4y ago

   "copy-pasta"? Is that a spaghetti replicator? :) I can reverse that, with XTRAN rules I have to automate removal of GOTOs by structuring code. (It uses XTRAN's code match/replace facility.)
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   by Expert-007 4y ago

   In creating and enhancing XTRAN, my Expert System that knows over 40 computer languages, I got tired of hard-coding parsers, so I created a parsing engine that takes EBNF (specified in more friendly syntax I created), parses the EBNF to an
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   by Expert-007 6y ago

   Such examples speak more to C++ templates as a mechanism for capturing usage patterns in a convenient form, thus effectively creating a special-purpose, domain-specific language, than they speak to such templates as a meta-language. "
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   by Expert-007 7y ago

   The term "meta-language" shouldn't be used to identify a specific language; it's a general term for a language that describes or manipulates another language(s). For instance, the rules language for XTRAN, our Expert Sy
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   by Expert-007 12y ago

   Solarsail -- not true. For one example, BNF is a meta-language (a language about language), and it is extremely useful in the real world. As the author of a computer language expert system, I refer to its rules language as a meta-language