Automatic programming

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In computer science, the term automatic programming identifies a type of computer programming in which some mechanism generates a computer program rather than have human programmers write the code.

There has been little agreement on the precise definition of automatic programming. According to researcher David Parnas, it is merely a euphemism for high-level languages.