Charles Simonyi
Microsoft Corporation


Introduction
This lecture series sponsored by Prof. Randell has a long-standing tradition of grand overviews of the state of the art in some aspect of computer science. For this instance, Brian and I have decided to break with this tradition for a number of reasons. First, currently I am only articulate when I discuss Intentional Programming so this limited the choice of subjects. But the general topic of “Future of Software” suggests that we look forward and it also grants a certain license to speculate. It so happens that this is the first public forum where I have ever discussed these ideas and this should also lend some spice to the occasion.

I intend to discuss one possible future avenue for the evolution of our expression of computer programs which would create exciting new possibilities in the production and sharing of software artifacts. In my second talk I would like to demonstrate, using an operational implementation, how programming might be done in the future.