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Extensible Programming for the 21st Century

Posted by simoniker on from the up-and-away dept.

Anonymous Cowardly Lion writes "An interesting article written by a professor at the University of Toronto argues that next-generation programming systems will combine compilers, linkers, debuggers, and that other tools will be plugin frameworks [mirror], rather than monolithic applications. Programmers will be able to extend the syntax of programming languages, and programs will be stored as XML documents so that programmers can represent and process data and meta-data uniformly. It's a very insightful and thought-provoking read. Is this going to be the next generation of extensible programming?"

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  1. Next generation tools... by Lord+Grey · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... will obviously be "forbidden." Yes, I did RTFA.

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    // Beyond Here Lie Dragons
  2. Wrong. by Bingo+Foo · · Score: 4, Funny

    XML? Bah. Next generation languages will be written in "WIMNNWIS" (What I mean not necessarily what I say) and will run on processors liberally sprinkled with pixie dust.

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    taken! (by Davidleeroth) Thanks Bingo Foo!
  3. Re:Data and metadata by XML by MisterFancypants · · Score: 4, Funny
    This is incredibly stupid. How come XML helps in dealing with data and metadata? Metadata *is* data.

    It goes up to 11, see. That's one higher.

  4. Re:Yeah huh... by Tumbleweed · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yep, and around the same time, we'll all be typing on Dvorak keyboards in Esperanto talking about the new flat tax. :)

  5. Hmm by AdrianFletcher666 · · Score: 5, Funny

    So basically, we get to combine the speed of Java/.NET with the user friendliness of XML and the security of COM? May god have mercy on our souls...

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    Adrian
  6. Extensible Schmextensible by blair1q · · Score: 4, Funny

    How about developing Maintainable programming?