Autocoding project proposal.

[David Masterson]

>>>>> David Masterson writes:

>>>>> Timothy Rue writes:
>> On 21-Jan-02 07:59:29 phil hunt <philh at comuno.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>>> On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 02:01:27 GMT, Timothy Rue <threeseas at earthlink.net>
>>> wrote:

>>>> This posting is to introduce or suggest an open source software
>>>> project to produce a core tool that will allow an autocoding
>>>> environment to be developed, allowed to evolve in the open source
>>>> software community and spirit of. I believe we can overcome many
>>>> of the problems that proprietary autocoding systems inherently
>>>> have (not to mention that existing autocoding systems appear to be
>>>> field/domain specific limited and that it may be possible to beat
>>>> this too.)

>>> When you say autocoding, what do you mean?

>> Programming is the act of automating the use of complexity that is
>> made up of simpler things.  Done so that such complexity is easier to
>> use.  As such the complexity of programming itself can be automated.

> Can you put that in English?  I mean you're obviously trying to put
> forth an idea for a program, but the complexity of your thought
> process is making it difficult to understand.

My mistake -- I see that your original post is more extensive than I
thought and I should've read it before posting.  It does look complex,
though, so its going to take awhile to understand.  Can you simplify?

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David Masterson                dmaster AT synopsys DOT com
Sr. R&D Engineer               Synopsys, Inc.
Software Engineering           Sunnyvale, CA