[mattiask]

Some day there'll probably be a nextgen language that addresses at least some of these issues. One way to resolve some of them today however is code generation.

While not appropriate to all kinds of solution I've had some success with building solutions, especially "enterprise solutions", where you model the problem descriptively (in say xml) and then generate the appropriate code.

This way you can glue together "architecture" code with "meat code", (ie substantial methods) and have the agility to refactor and regenerate. The bulk of the code is often some kind of yak pattern shaving so you can save quite a lot of time.

You're basically designing your own DSL (Domain Specific Language) and then writing the "parser/compiler"