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Request for self-replicating reference

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From: uwvaxgreg
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1982 14:30
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I remember seeing a wonderful recreation column in Quote Quad quite a
while back, and am trying to find it again.  It was about
self-replicating APL expressions.  I don't remember the exact
definition they gave, but the basic idea is that one concocts a
character vector which when given as an argument to execute reproduces
itself.  Other variants discussed in the article include expressions
which replicate themselves and then a finite or infinite (I think)
vector of duplicates of a tail of the expression.

I'm pretty sure that the issue I'm looking for is more than four years
ld; I looked through the back issues of Quote Quad that our library
, and couldn't find it.  Any leads would be appreciated.  Thanks in
advance.

                                - Greg Johnson
                                  U Wis - Madison
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Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1982 14:30:23 +0000
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