Another general question to the list

Alan Kay Alan.Kay at squeakland.org
Fri Aug 15 18:02:11 UTC 2003


Hi Folks --

An idea that has surfaced numerous times in various ways over the 
last 40 years can be stated as a question:

If unit tests are a good idea, then shouldn't we try to generate the 
method code directly from them?

In other words, there could be/should be a language in which one 
programs in terms of the criteria to be achieved, and the system 
tries to come up with code that meets those criteria. (The last one 
of these that seemed really interesting was ART by Inference Corp 
(out of the CMU context).)

Anyone know of any interesting current work along these lines?

Cheers,

Alan
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