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Article #4765Re: Self reproducing programs (was Re: Problems needed!)
From: Erland Sommarskog
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1987 18:45
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1987 18:45
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In a recent article debray@arizona.edu (Saumya Debray) writes:
>The *really* trivial solution is the program consisting of the empty
>string. A "correct" compiler should compile this to produce the empty
>object program, which when executed will generate the empty string as
>output.
Which reminds of a Pascal compiler written at the University of Copenhagen
for Univac 1100. If you forgot to give it file to compile, it answered:
"No input, blockhead. Try again, this time with a program."
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Erland Sommarskog
ENEA Data, Stockholm
sommar@enea.UUCP
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!mcvax!enea!sommar From: sommar@enea.UUCP (Erland Sommarskog) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Self reproducing programs (was Re: Problems needed!) Message-ID: <2045@enea.UUCP> Date: Wed, 1-Jul-87 14:45:46 EDT Article-I.D.: enea.2045 Posted: Wed Jul 1 14:45:46 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 2-Jul-87 07:04:56 EDT References: <1790@megaron.arizona.edu> Reply-To: sommar@enea.UUCP(Erland Sommarskog) Followup-To: comp.lang.misc Organization: ENEA DATA Svenska AB, Sweden Lines: 16