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aimed at expressing the macroscopic, global behaviour of an entire system of agents or computing devices.<ref name="Casadei 2023">{{cite journal | last=Casadei | first=Roberto | title=Macroprogramming: Concepts, State of the Art, and Opportunities of Macroscopic Behaviour Modelling | journal=ACM Computing Surveys | publisher=Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | date=2023-01-11 | volume=55 | issue=13s | pages=1–37 | issn=0360-0300 | doi=10.1145/3579353 | s2cid=245837830 | arxiv=2201.03473 }}</ref>

In macroprogramming, the local programs for the individual components of a [[distributed system]] are compiled or interpreted from a ''macro-program'' typically expressed by a system-level perspective or in terms of the intended global goal.<ref name="Casadei 2023" />

The aim of macroprogramming approaches is to support expressing the macroscopic interactive behaviour of a whole distributed system of computing devices or [[software agent|agents]] in a single program, or, similarly, to promote their [[collective intelligence]].<ref name="CI 2023">{{cite journal | last=Casadei | first=Roberto | title=Artificial Collective Intelligence Engineering: A Survey of Concepts and Perspectives | journal=Artificial Life | publisher=MIT Press | date=2023-11-01 | volume=29 | issue=4 | pages=433-467433–467 | issn=0360-0300 | doi=10.1162/artl_a_00408 | arxiv=2304.05147 }}</ref>

It has not to be confused with [[Macro (computer science)|macros]], the mechanism often found in programming languages (like [[C (programming language)|C]] or [[Scala (programming language)|Scala]]) to express substitution rules for program pieces.