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

--
Marcus Denker marcus at ira.uka.de  -- Squeak! http://squeak.de



More information about the Squeak-dev mailing list