Extensible Programming for the 21st Century

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?"

Comments

As interesting it may be ...

[BillsPetMonkey]

I think someone forgot to get their permission to link to their site from Slashdot.

look like the author has an AI programmer

[oliverthered]

It is usually to refer to a neuter member of the human race as masculine (man,he etc..) and a neuter object as feminine (her,she etc...)

sine the author was intent in using the feminine for the programmer I would assume that the programmer was non-human, a machine.