Re: [O] proposal for a tool to translate orgmode outlines into programs

[Eric Schulte]

Isaac <address@hidden> writes:

> proposal for a tool to translate orgmode outlines into programs
>

Hi Isaac,

This is a hard problem and an area of active research.  Search for
"program synthesis" [1] to see a selection of work in this field.
Generally programs are built from descriptions in formal languages which
are much more structured than Org-mode, although some have also tried to
automatically write programs from man pages [2].

Armando Solar-Lezama's work [3] is related if we are including code
snippets in Org-mode code blocks, namely "program sketching" [4] which
attempts to build programs from incomplete program-language sketches and
test cases.

Best,

Footnotes: 
[1]  http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=program%20synthesis

[2]  https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotosxiii/macho-programming-man-pages

[3]  http://people.csail.mit.edu/asolar/

[4]  http://people.csail.mit.edu/asolar/papers/thesis.pdf

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