quines

> So...how’s that working out? Fantastically if the goal is to set up recurring revenue to maintain the produced systems. > Even when we have AI creating software (and we will), the AI will still need disciplined requirements, which, I suspect, will look a lot like...code. https://github.com/webyrd/quines is an interesting example of writing code to create code based on a specification. Perhaps not the AI code generator of some people's dreams, but it exists today.

Yes, it uses pmatch behind the scene to match your expr against the evaluator. https://github.com/webyrd/quines/blob/master/pmatch.scm I have to agree, this like rank #1 in my book!

Its not sad at all. Really good programmers can do things that ordinary programmers think impossible. This code was probably generated. Here is a paper on quine generation[1], and the authors have a very popular talk where they livecode a quine generator; that is, they livecode a program that generates an infinite list of quines[2] (source code from talk [3]). [1] http://users-cs.au.dk/danvy/sfp12/papers/byrd-holk-friedman-... [2] http://www.infoq.com/presentations/miniKanren [3] https://github.com/webyrd/quines The talk is amazing and hilarious. On point, if the code is not generated in this fashion, there is assuredly a "work smart not hard" trick that drastically simplifies the problem.