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Intentional Programming demo (Part 1) - Editor

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What it is

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.

Why Hacker News recommends it

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

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2007, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “intentional programming from Charles Simonyi”

    Interesting ideas for reading and writing programs.

    spyder, 2014-09 · Recommendation · in “New Requests for Startups”

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Topics: charles simonyi, projectional editing, microsoft research, programming tools

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