> It’s one of those things that crackpots keep trying to do, no matter how much you tell them it could never work. If the spec defines precisely what a program will do, with enough detail that it can be used to generate the program itself, this just begs the question: how do you write the spec? Such a complete spec is just as hard to write as the underlying computer program, because just as many details have to be answered by spec writer as the programmer.
Joel Spolsky, stackoverflow.com founder, Talk at Yale: Part 1 of 3 https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2007/12/03/talk-at-yale-part-...