Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!hsdndev!cmcl2!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Small introspective program Message-ID: <15489@smoke.brl.mil> Date: 16 Mar 91 22:26:34 GMT References: <4963@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> <217@hermix.UUCP> <1991Mar16.163213.9794@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD. Lines: 9 In article <1991Mar16.163213.9794@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> kym@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (R. Kym Horsell) writes: >Ok, that's nice. Why not progress to the stage of writing programs >that write self-recognising programs? My program "" does that too. The reason I posted the empty-content example program was to emphasize the point that without carefully-specified rules this "contest" is a waste of time. I think my example has won the loosely-specified contest.