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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!utcsri!devnull
  2. Newsgroups: alt.hackers
  3. From: flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal)
  4. Subject: Re: Self Printing Program, revisited
  5. Message-ID: <1992Sep4.171625.4546@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
  6. References: <9lm-wK-@engin.umich.edu> <1992Sep4.083327.15563@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <Bu296o.4rJ@solbourne.com>
  7. Date: 4 Sep 92 21:16:25 GMT
  8. Approved: blof
  9. Lines: 10
  10.  
  11. imp@solbourne.com (Warner Losh) writes:
  12. >There is a shorter version if you do it completely in shell:
  13. >----------------------- cut here -------------------------------
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  15.  
  16. This is true for some interpreted basics too.  So the modified problem is
  17. usually to produce a non-empty self-printing program.
  18.  
  19. It is interesting to look at various kinds of "cheating" and see how hard it is
  20. to modify the rules to eliminate the cheat.
  21.