The Programmer’s Apprentice: A Session with KBEmacs
RICHARD C. WATERS , MEMBER, IEEE
Invited Paper
Abstract
The Knowledge-Based Editor in Emacs (KBEmacs) is the current demonstration system implemented as part of the Programmer’s Apprentice project. KBEmacs is capable of acting as a semiexpert assistant to a person who is writing a program—taking over some parts of the programming task. Using KBEmacs, it is possible to construct a program by issuing a series of high level commands. This series of commands can be as much as an order of magnitude shorter than the program it describes.KBEmacs is capable of operating on Ada and Lisp programs of realistic size and complexity. Although KBEmacs is neither fast enough nor robust enough to be ...
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