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LECTURE GLOBALE - II
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A - Brennan is not going into any detail about how the system works until his patents are granted. But he hopes to be licensing his program to software companies within 18 months so that they can build it into their own packages. If that happens, you might well be able to add programs of your own design to your PC—without knowing how to code. |
| B - Vikram Adve, a programming-language researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign remains sceptical. "Every programming language that I have heard of has a well-defined syntax and well-defined semantics," he says. And for a very good reason: all programming languages operate on instruction compilers and hardware that are essentially dumb. "Neither can really interpret the intention of the programmer," says Adve. So programming languages are deliberately designed to be unambiguous to avoid confusion. | |
| C - Brennan agrees that previously this required strict syntax. "The problem before was that computers couldn't cope with ambiguities, but now they can," he says. Mi-Tech's small lexicon means there is less room for confusion. And if it's unsure of your meaning, Mi-Tech will just say it doesn't understand. | |
| D - Brennan says his program can write code in a fraction of the time that it takes trained programmers. He spent months writing a program manually, producing hundreds of pages of code. But given "just three pages of monologue", Mi-Tech generated a program that performed exactly the same tasks. |