Reflective programming

A Reflective programming language or system is one that includes the ability of a program to reference its own program state and instructions as a data structure. It is not necessary for a reflective programming language to modify its own programs as they are running (this is a self-modifying language) but it is necessary that the system can treat its own program as data.

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