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Intentional Programming demo (Part 1) - Editor

dftube · 14.4K views · 2006-08-25 · 9:59

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Overview

A roughly ten-minute demo of Microsoft's Intentional Programming research system, showing its editor and an unusual way of working with code. It is the first of two clips cut from a longer video.

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Commenters cite it as an early example of projectional or intent-based programming tools when discussing alternatives to text-based code.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2007–2024

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Testing, debugging & developer toolsHistory of computingProgramming language design
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spyder · 2014-09 · Recommendation

There are some interesting ideas that could help with reading and writing programs: from Bret Victor: [LINK] and intentional programming from Charles Simonyi: [LINK] [VIDEO]

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sweetsocks21 · 2024-02 · Reference

Intentional Software was working on a system like this many years ago: [VIDEO] Part 2: [LINK] You can project your programs into different views and add lots of metadata about the program and use that data in various contexts. Also extends to source control and other use cases. It looked really neat. I'm not sure what happened to it.

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corysama · 2023-08 · Reference

Charles Simonyi's Intentional Software was doing that back in the days of Windows NT [VIDEO] But, they stayed insular and enterprise right up until Microsoft bought them back. We mortals barely got to see or hear anything about it. I heard one podcast interview of a developer there who said they basically represent the code as an s-expression tree with a bunch of metadata on each node.

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