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Zoea -- Composable Inductive Programming Without Limits

Programming Languages 2019-11-20 v1 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

Automatic generation of software from some form of specification has been a long standing goal of computer science research. To date successful results have been reported for the production of relatively small programs. This paper presents Zoea which is a simple programming language that allows software to be generated from a specification format that closely resembles a set of automated functional tests. Zoea incorporates a number of advances that enable it to generate software that is large enough to have commercial value. Zoea also allows programs to be composed to form still larger programs. As a result Zoea can be used to produce software of any size and complexity. An overview of the core Zoea language is provided together with a high level description of the symbolic AI based Zoea compiler.

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@article{arxiv.1911.08286,
  title  = {Zoea -- Composable Inductive Programming Without Limits},
  author = {Edward McDaid and Sarah McDaid},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.08286},
  year   = {2019}
}

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13 pages, 4 figures

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