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Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2015

Filed:

Dec. 11, 2012
Applicant:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Dustin R. Campbell, Redmond, WA (US);

Kevin Pilch-Bisson, Snohomish, WA (US);

Cyrus Najmabadi, Seattle, WA (US);

David J. Poeschl, Issaquah, WA (US);

Vladimir Reshetnikov, Redmond, WA (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/72 (2013.01);
Abstract

An automated programming tool can receive program source code and can expand portions of the program source code to make to make identifiers explicit, insert sets of parenthesis and so on. Expansions can be kept track of so that reductions after refactoring can be confined to altered portions of the program source code.


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