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From: Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
To: Isaac <isaacpei@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: proposal for a tool to translate orgmode outlines into programs
Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2013 07:53:46 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ob73hlhx.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20131004T183836-496@post.gmane.org> (Isaac's message of "Fri, 4 Oct 2013 16:38:52 +0000 (UTC)")

Isaac <isaacpei@gmail.com> 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

-- 
Eric Schulte
https://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte
PGP: 0x614CA05D

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-10-05 13:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-04 16:38 proposal for a tool to translate orgmode outlines into programs Isaac
2013-10-04 17:12 ` Thomas S. Dye
2013-10-04 22:42   ` Isaac
2013-10-05  7:11     ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-10-05 13:53 ` Eric Schulte [this message]
2013-10-05 17:39   ` Isaac

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