Rice University leads $11M effort in big data software analytics
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Re: Rice University leads $11M effort in big data software analytics
#2“We envision a system where the programmer writes a few of lines of code, hits a button and the rest of the code appears. And not only that, the rest of the code should work seamlessly with the code that’s already been written.”
I'm skeptical...
'Writing computer programs could become as easy as searching the Internet. A Rice University-led team of software experts has launched an $11 million effort to create a sophisticated tool called PLINY that will both “autocomplete” and “autocorrect” code for programmers, much like the software that completes search queries and corrects spelling on today’s Web browsers and smartphones.'
Interested, but very, very skeptical...
Re: Rice University leads $11M effort in big data software analytics
#3“We envision a system where the programmer writes a few of lines of code, hits a button and the rest of the code appears. And not only that, the rest of the code should work seamlessly with the code that’s already been written.” I'm skeptical... 'Writing computer programs could become as easy as searching the Internet. A Rice University-led team of software experts has launched an $11 million effort to create a sophi…
I am right there with you. we already have "auto-complete". I am not sure what "auto-correct" would entail. My guess is fixing syntax errors, but i don't see how it could even address logic errors.
Re: Rice University leads $11M effort in big data software analytics
#4“We envision a system where the programmer writes a few of lines of code, hits a button and the rest of the code appears. And not only that, the rest of the code should work seamlessly with the code that’s already been written.” I'm skeptical... 'Writing computer programs could become as easy as searching the Internet. A Rice University-led team of software experts has launched an $11 million effort to create a sophi…
I've seen plenty of platforms that write their own code from UI-type elements. That code is scary.
Re: Rice University leads $11M effort in big data software analytics
#5As usual, the future is already here, just unevenly distributed.
https://github.com/capitaomorte/yasnippet
I do wonder if you gave $11M to João Távora what the end result would be. Probably pretty cool.
Re: Rice University leads $11M effort in big data software analytics
#6I half-remember they tried to do a subset of this with some LISP/SCHEME, but it didn't pan out too well.
Re: Rice University leads $11M effort in big data software analytics
#7“We envision a system where the programmer writes a few of lines of code, hits a button and the rest of the code appears. And not only that, the rest of the code should work seamlessly with the code that’s already been written.” I'm skeptical... 'Writing computer programs could become as easy as searching the Internet. A Rice University-led team of software experts has launched an $11 million effort to create a sophi…
I am right there with you. we already have "auto-complete". I am not sure what "auto-correct" would entail. My guess is fixing syntax errors, but i don't see how it could even address logic errors.
Able to identify common methods/algos/calls and correct a programmer's use of them, add in missing checks, remove unnecessary blocks/lines?
Re: Rice University leads $11M effort in big data software analytics
#8This is easy. IDE bot scrapes stackoverflow as you type. Ctrl-space to paste 'best' solution.
Re: Rice University leads $11M effort in big data software analytics
#9This is easy. IDE bot scrapes stackoverflow as you type. Ctrl-space to paste 'best' solution.
Re: Rice University leads $11M effort in big data software analytics
#10It's a great idea. But, what code base is this autocomplete going to run off of?
If they are thinking of sourcing the internet itself, there had better be some kind of omniscient, all powerful proofreader in place, because there are a lot of people that submit a lot of code that is HORRIBLY insecure, inaccurate, prone to breakage or just plain spaghetti.
I'd hate to be working on a missile guidance system, only to press to complete a code block and end up getting some Intel Pentium FDIV instructions.