Generalizing by Removing Detail

A long-standing goal of the programming by demonstration research community is to enable people to construct programs by showing how the desired programs should work on sample inputs. A major challenge is how to make the programs general. Heuristics and inference can generalize recorded actions on sample data in narrow domains but have yet to be much help in general purpose programming. This paper describes a programming system called ToonTalk

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2000
• Where: CACM
• Authors: Kenneth M. Kahn
• Keywords: CACM 2000, Data Structure, Programming, Sample Data