Computer Programing May Become Much Easier

Writing computer programs, commonly referred to as ‘code’, may soon become much easier, thanks to an initiative led by computer scientists from Rice University, in Houston, Texas. The goal of the $11 million-project called PLINY is to create a tool for helping software developers automatically complete and correct their code by instantly comparing it with a huge database of publicly available computer programs. According to Vivek Sarkar, chair of Rice’s Computer Science Department,...

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