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>> Think of higher level specifications which do not imply any details of the implementation.

In that case you're talking about inductive program synthesis, i.e. program synthesis from incomplete specifications. Program synthesis from complete specification is what we call deductive program synthesis.

Both are quite possible within the limits of undecidability of sufficiently expressive languages. My question to the OP was why did they think it's not possible at all, but I may have misread their comment.



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