Editing Metalinguistic abstraction (section)

{{Short description|Principle in computer science of domain-specific languages for problem solving}}
In [[computer science]], '''metalinguistic abstraction''' is the process of solving complex problems by creating a new [[Programming language|language]] or vocabulary to better understand the problem space. More generally, it also encompasses the ability or skill of a programmer to think outside of the pre-conceived notions of a specific language in order to exploratorily investigate a problem space in search of the kind of solutions which are most natural or cognitively ergonomic to it. It is a recurring theme in the seminal [[MIT Press|MIT]] textbook ''[[Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs]]'', which uses [[Scheme (programming language)|Scheme]], a dialect of [[Lisp (programming language)|Lisp]], as a framework for constructing new languages.