Reflective Languages
Reflective languages let programs examine and possibly modify their high level structure at runtime. This is most common in high-level virtual machine programming languages like Smalltalk, and less common in lower-level programming languages like C. Languages and platforms supporting reflection:
See also: Aspect-oriented programming- Befunge
- C#
- Charm
- ChucK
- Cobra
- Component Pascal BlackBox Component Builder
- Curl
- Delphi
- ECMAScript
- ActionScript
- ECMAScript for XML
- JavaScript
- JScript
- Eiffel
- Forth
- Harbour
- Java
- Java Virtual Machine
- Groovy
- Join Java
- X10
- Lisp
- Clojure
- Common Lisp
- Dylan
- Logo
- Scheme
- Lua
- Maude system
- .NET Framework Common Language Runtime
- Oberon-2 ETH Oberon System
- Obix
- Objective-C
- PCASTL
- Perl
- PHP
- Pico
- Pliant
- Poplog
- POP-11
- Prolog
- Python
- REBOL
- Ruby
- Smalltalk (pure object-orientation, originally from Xerox PARC)
- Bistro
- F-Script
- Little Smalltalk
- Self
- Squeak
- IBM VisualAge
- VisualWorks
- Snobol
- Tcl
- XOTcl
- X++
- XL
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