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Metaprogramming

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Metaprogramming was the process by which droids developed their own personalities over time, literally "programming their own programming." In the E-3PO series, for example, metaprogramming sometimes exhibited bugs resulting in personality defects. It has been theorized that metaprogramming was a trait shared by all droids, explaning why they developed personalities over time if not regularly memory-wiped.

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