Another general question to the list
Marcus Denker
marcus at ira.uka.de
Fri Aug 15 17:31:38 UTC 2003
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 10:02:11AM -0800, Alan Kay wrote:
>
> 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?
>
Ward Cunningham seems to do some work in that direction with
XGP - eXtreme Genetic Programming: http://www.neocoretechs.com/
Marcus
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