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RE: Something I wanted to share with the group.by jlistf (Monk) |
on Aug 17, 2000 at 20:32 UTC ( [id://28328]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Also, what do you guys think of software that generates code for the programmer? what? aren't programming languages (some of them at least) already pretty high-level. its not like we're working in machine code or assembly. most Perl programs (and Java and even C++ to some extent and probably python) are reasonably easy to understand if they were written well. what exactly would the user tell the program anyway? "write a program that will validate form data, enter it into a database and send the user an email." i guarantee that it wouldn't work out. for a simple language like HTML (which has no control structures, no variables, just text processing) you could do it (and it has been done), but not for higher-level languages. some routines could be automated, but isn't that the idea of OOP, modules and CPAN? another point. larry wall's a linguist (or was or knows the stuff or whatever). and he designed Perl to be similar to most natural languages. in order to write a program that automatically generates code, we're delving into some heavy-duty AI. jeff
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