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Re:Ask HN: Do you recognize this approach to programming? by baddox on Sunday May 16, 2010 @01:06PM (#1352304)
The a = b + c examples looks like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constraint_programming .
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Re:Ask HN: Do you recognize this approach to programming? by gruseom on Sunday May 16, 2010 @01:28PM (#1352366)
If anyone wants to learn constraint programming, as I needed to do a few months ago, the two best books I found are this one, which is a general introduction:

http://www.amazon.com/Constraint-Processing-Kaufmann-Artific...

... and this one, which is a survey of the literature:

http://www.amazon.com/Constraint-Programming-Foundations-Art...

None of the other books I looked at was even close to as useful as these. Maybe this will save somebody some trouble.

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