Language-Shaping Forces
To understand what to expect from the future evolution of mainstream programming languages like C#, we should first take a look at the themes that are gaining popularity and at the challenges ahead:
Meta-programming facilities are popping up in various platforms today. Nearly every enterprise application written today contains code that has been generated somehow (for example, to wire up user interface controls, to carry out mappings like object-relational [O/R], or to consume web services through generated proxy objects). This trend is definitely calling for a more accessible object model to represent code.
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