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Is this too similar to [[Introspection]]? Should they be combined? --[[User:Mwn3d|Mwn3d]] 18:14, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
:I'm fine merging them, but they're inspecting different things. [[Introspection]] asks a programming language to inspect ''itself'', and [[Host Introspection]] asks a programming language to inspect its ''host''. This is pretty different from a language asking questions about itself (maybe a better name for [[Introspection]] is [[Reflection]]?).
:Some (many) languages abstract away the host, so that programs can run on many different types of host, without requiring host-specific tests or changes. If your language is in this category, this task asks whether it still gives you access to host-specific information (i.e. the abstraction means you don't ''have'' to care about the host, but introspection allows you to care if you ''want'' to).
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