Re: Fancy use of PrimitiveFixture

On Saturday, October 11, 2003, at 4:36:24 PM, Ward Cunningham wrote:

> There is a methodological track I am following here that may not come 
> out too strongly so I will say a few words about it here. In the old 
> days we use to talk about "symbolic evalutation". This was a 
> realization that we didn't have to actually compile a program to 
> evaluate it. I think it fell out of favor because as often as not the 
> eventual compilation was as likely as not to cause more problems and 
> these would not be seen by symbolic evaluation.

> But this was all before xp and tdd. I think that there is a huge 
> opportunity for paired-tdd against symbolic evaluators, especially when 
> the evaluators can raise the level of machine interaction to a level 
> that a pair would want to discuss. I'll write more on this as I gain 
> more experience. As always, I'm fishing for pairs (or clients) with 
> similar interests who might want to explore with me.

This sounds fascinating. I'd like to know lots more about it! Keep going!

Ron Jeffries
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