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Precision has to come from somewhere. Having your actual production code read "call the function that does <this>" and the interpreter/compiler looks it up bas
by tbrownaw 12y ago
Precision has to come from somewhere.
Having your actual production code read "call the function that does <this>" and the interpreter/compiler looks it up based on NLP of the documentation seems very silly and fragile and hard to debug.
Having an IDE that can look things up for you (whether full NLP or just keywords) in the API reference and give you a sorted-by-relevance list to pick from, seems like a great idea. (Some already look by substring matching what you type anywhere in the method name, rather than just as a prefix of the name. Which is already pretty good.)