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

2013-10-05 Thread Isaac
Eric Schulte gmail.com> writes: > > Isaac 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. > G

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

2013-10-05 Thread Eric Schulte
Isaac 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 whi

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

2013-10-05 Thread Thorsten Jolitz
Isaac writes: Hi Isaac, > Thomas S. Dye tsdye.com> writes: > >> >> Aloha Isaac, >> >> This sounds to me a lot like literate programming, which can be >> accomplished in Org with very many languages, including ruby and python >> (but not lua, yet). See >> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/b

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

2013-10-04 Thread Isaac
Thomas S. Dye tsdye.com> writes: > > Aloha Isaac, > > This sounds to me a lot like literate programming, which can be > accomplished in Org with very many languages, including ruby and python > (but not lua, yet). See > http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages.html. An advantage > o

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

2013-10-04 Thread Thomas S. Dye
Aloha Isaac, This sounds to me a lot like literate programming, which can be accomplished in Org with very many languages, including ruby and python (but not lua, yet). See http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages.html. An advantage of literate programming is that it generates document