Thanks very much Marcus --

This is very like what Danny Hillis was doing many years ago. For 
now, I'm more interested in something less blind and that allows side 
strategies to be applied.

Cheers,

Alan

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At 7:31 PM +0200 8/15/03, Marcus Denker wrote:
>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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>Marcus Denker marcus at ira.uka.de  -- Squeak! http://squeak.de


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