Question

I’m looking for a language sort of like PHP, but more brief — I’m tempted to call it a “templating engine” but I’m pretty sure that’s the wrong term. What is the right term? A text preprocessor?

Anyway I’d like it to be .NET-based because I want to use it to help write .NET code. Because .NET generics are unsuited for writing fast numeric code (the known workaround is too cumbersome and limited for my needs), I’d like to write a math library using some sort of preprocessing language that allows me to output C# code. For example, I’d like to generate a series of “Point” classes made from various data types (PointF, PointD, PointI, etc.):

#foreach(($T, $Type) in {(F, float), (D, double), (I, int), ...}) #{
    public struct Point$T {
        public $Type X, Y;
        ...
    }
#}

What can you fine people suggest?

Answer 1

Have you had a chance to try T4 templates? That should be sufficient for what you are trying to achieve. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb126445.aspx