Hi all,
I've read a fair bit about Intensional Programming, but I'd never seen
Microsoft's demo system working - until today. The video has a retro feel,
like a future that never happened or the year 2001 in the rear-view mirror:
Part 1 : http://youtube.com/watch?v=tSnnfUj1XCQ
Part 2 : http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZZDwB4-DPXE&feature=related
There are some interesting things here:
Introducing new syntax / semantics as part of the system. Trivial switching
of syntaxes / layout. Textual and visual representations. Code evolution by
transformation. _A_ model of editing by transformation - I'm sure those are
going to be contentious!
One tangential idea I quite like is that of tidying up and moving on legacy
code bases. They can parse the source extract low level 'intentions' and
then reprocess those abstractions en mass to some higher level.
Also interesting to note how much we sort of have right now in current
refactoring editors.
And the awful presentation - bless - is she a member of a yacht club?!
Toby
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