Approaches to Automatic Programming

This paper is an overview of current approaches to automatic programming organized around three fundamental questions that must be addressed in the design of any automatic programming system: What does the user see? How does the system work? What does the system know? As an example of a research effort in this area, we focus the Programmerś Apprentice project. Advances in Computers, Volume 37, M. C. Yovits, ed., Academic Press, 1993 This work may not be copied or reproduced in whole or in part for any commercial purpose. Permission to copy in whole or in part without payment of fee is granted for nonprofit educational and research purposes provided that all such whole or partial copies include the following: a notice that such copying is by permission of Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.; an acknowledgment of the authors and individual contributions to the work; and all applicable portions of the copyright notice. Copying, reproduction, or republishing for any other purpose shall require a license with payment of fee to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc. All rights reserved. Copyright c ©Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc., 1992 201 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139