Hello David....
such attempt to programming is very new for me... I browsed a lot of sites
about the generic programming. Frankly saying I am glad I am too old not to
see how programs will tried to exchange humans logic thinking by a random
generic solutions. The idea is interesting but the goal stinks a bit...

Regards

Igor.

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>
>And the program then tries different sequences until it hits upon one that
produces the expected outputs when given the inputs?
>
>So it generates code in the same way that the old joke about the room full
of monkeys randomly typing will eventually produce the works of Shakespeare?

This is closely related to genetic programming.
It is a workable technique, as long as you completely describe the output
states you're looking for.

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