In computer programming, intentional programming is a collection of concepts which enable software source code to reflect the precise information, called intention, which programmers had in mind when conceiving their work. By closely matching the level of abstraction at which the programmer was thinking, browsing and maintaining computer programs becomes easier.
The concept was introduced by long-time Microsoft employee Charles Simonyi, who led a team in Microsoft Research which developed an integrated development environment (IDE) called IP that demonstrates these concepts. For reasons that are unclear, Microsoft stopped working on intentional programming and ended development of IP in the early 2000s.
An overview of intentional programming is given in Chapter 11 of the book Generative Programming: Methods, Tools, and Applications.
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