that postmodern programming, is googling for code snippet to paste in your ide or framework
and all the effort you will do is configure and glue stuff together
sounded cool at the time
http://www.wall.org/~larry/pm.html
Perl, the first postmodern computer language
Though its a bit deeper than your summary so perhaps not.
I've been assigned to my first Java project at work, and during training they would show how much you could do without 'coding'. I guess editing XML files and inserting program code in the strings of said XML files isn't technically 'coding', where I guess 'coding' means writing scary Java code with, you know, type checking and relvant error messages and stuff. Why I need to be able to redefine the class name of our 'beans' internal to the working of our system using a user editable configuration file is beyond me.
/rant
Glad that I'm far from that project now.
Source: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Software_Engine...