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Reflective : |
| Reflection: a method or means to let a system maintain information about itself (meta-information), and to use such to alter its behavior, to change, adapt; something acting upon itself. This is higher-order behavior than strict imperative models.
More concretely, reflection is also an ability (for users) to modify software (even system software) of the underlying system during runtime, without leaving that system. Most programs written today are not reflective. With non-reflective systems, if one modifies (edits) any source code, one must recompile, and then restart it, thus leaving the system. With a reflective system, one can modify code (even kernel code), recompile, and replace the running system code as the system runs, with no restarting, rebooting, or often even leaving the editor. This allows and promotes more dynamic, fluid, productive work style. Such runtime modifiability is similar to what an extensible operating system (OS) allows, which can be viewed as a limited type of (application-level) OS reflectivity.
Reflection, where program = data, simplifies writing compilers, interpreters, optimizers, theorem provers, and defining higher order functions.
Reflective programming languages are those that take advantage of such traits and abilities, to various ends. Many exist. Some are used daily, in working systems, but they do not dominate, and are not mainstream, yet. They are a very interesting and promising class of languages. Some are found in research, where they form a fascinating branch of computer science. Some experts say they will grow more important in the future as computer power rises, programs grow more complex, and artificial intelligence properties are grafted onto, or blended with, languages. Or, like so many other technologies, they may remain more marginal, used only in certain areas and applications.
On this page, languages are arranged in three groups and levels: 1) Top group: types or classes of languages. 2) Middle group: languages for which there are more than one instance of a language of this name/type, a language family. 3) Bottom group: specific languages, individual instances; there is only one language of this name/type. |
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9 web sites matced for Reflective |
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TUNES Project: Reflection
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Unique description, links. [Open Content]
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Computational Reflection
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Definition, some explanations and related material.
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ISE Technology paper: Agents, Iterators and Introspection in Eiffel
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Written in the form of an addition to the book 'Eiffel: The Language'. Introspection is Eiffel's term for reflection. Acrobat PDF format.
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Napier88
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Programming system (language and persistent environment) from University of St Andrews. Features: orthogonal persistence, type completeness, higher-order procedures, abstract (existential) data types, collections of bindings, strongly typed stable store, graphical data types, concurrent execution and data access, support for reflective programming.
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Reflective Languages
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Several object-oriented languages are designed or extended to support varied levels of reflection: KRS (3-KRS), Lisp (3-Lisp, CLOS), ABCL (ABCL/R, ACBL/R2), AL-1/D (MMRF), C++ (Open C++, Iguana), Java (MetaXa).
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Reflection '96 Conference
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Proceedings, electronic copies of abstracts and full documents. Much useful information.
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Review About Computational Reflection
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Includes an overview of the language, glossary of terms, links to reviews, and links to programmers' personal pages.
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ResearchIndex: Reflection in logic, functional and object-oriented programming: a Short Comparative Study
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From Department of Data Processing and Operations Research, University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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ResearchIndex: Object-Oriented Concurrent Reflective Languages can be Implemented Efficiently
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From OOPSLA October 1992.
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