[preseinger]

metaprogramming is not a virtue

programming languages do not themselves need to be programmable

[rcxdude]

My experience suggests otherwise. If the appropriate facilities don't exist in a language, users will resort to code generation.

[preseinger]

usually, code generation is preferable to metaprogramming, mostly because it is easier to understand and maintain

[pjmlp]

That is why stuff like m4 gets born.