Abstract
This document does not contain language proposals; at a later stage they may be inspired by it. It has no other purpose than to record discussions and programming experiments. It is exciting because it seems to open the possibility of writing programs that could be implemented
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either by normal sequential techniques
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or by elephants built from mosquitoes
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or by a data-driven machine.
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Dijkstra, E.W. (1982). A Synthesis Emerging?. In: Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective. Texts and Monographs in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5695-3_26
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