IntentionalProgramming

Idea via CharlesSimonyi (ReadWith) LanguageOrientedProgramming

Update : Something released in 2009 :

• http://martinfowler.com/bliki/IntentionalSoftware.html

• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/oslo/dd727740.aspx

Earlier :

• http://www.codegeneration.net/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=61

• http://www.edge.org/digerati/simonyi/simonyi_p1.html

• More about his latest stuff : http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/18047/

• Discussed at JOS : http://discuss.fogcreek.com/joelonsoftware/default.asp?cmd=show&ixPost=174783&ixReplies=25

• LispLanguage influence : (Because http://www.findinglisp.com/blog/2004/07/lisp-refactoring.html (Because code is data in Lisp)

• I posted it at Perl Monks: http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=383635

I wonder if this has to do with new thinking about abstract representations of problems. A language for describing problems? Compare DynamicIdeography, JackPot?

• JonUdell on editing the "deep structure" of code : http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2005/01/19.html#a1154

Links to SubText

• TextFreeProgramming

Compare :

• ConceptProgramming

See also OnAbstraction, SemanticWeb, GrowingALanguage, OnEmbodyment, SavedMacro