Metaprogramming was the process by which droids developed their own personalities over time, literally "programming their own programming." In the E-3PO series, for example, metaprogramming sometimes exhibited bugs resulting in personality defects. It has been theorized that metaprogramming was a trait shared by all droids, explaning why they developed personalities over time if not regularly memory-wiped.
In reality, metaprogramming is the process of embedding a program into another program so that the first program is executed during compilation of the second with the ability to manipulate the second program as data.
In reality, metaprogramming is the process of embedding a program into another program so that the first program is executed during compilation of the second with the ability to manipulate the second program as data.