Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: > What the OP was looking for was "I want my program to be able to debug > itself". That means the program has to be smart enough to figure out > its own problems. Self-modifying code isn't anywhere near that level > of intelligence.
You are right that we're not nearly there yet (although genetic programming is a bit of a similar thing). What is needed is an automated methodology to derive algorithmic solutions to formally specified features. Since there are only a handful of tools in a programmer's toolbox, that objective doesn't seem at all impossible. The big question is, is it possible to specify features formally without actually coding them? Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
