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In many ways being limited ends up being a feature. Even limited as it is, you get some crimes against humanity like the bourne shell source, but at least most people agree it is a bad idea

If it allowed more unlimited metaprogramming, building big complex things as macros might well have become popular

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The CPP does allow quite advanced metaprogramming, it's just so obtuse to use and requires insane hacks so almost nobody does. See one of my favorite projects https://github.com/hirrolot/metalang99

The CPP allows “advanced metaprogramming” like throating a banana can sometimes sound like speech

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