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I'm not sure what you mean by that. I was under the impression that Common Lisp macros were the first metaprogramming feature

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/267862/what-makes-lisp-ma...

.. and not the last: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/97069/is-ther...



Well, Lisp macros as a meta-programming facility were introduced in 1963 by Timothy Hart.




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