Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!caen!uwm.edu!bionet!agate!stanford.edu!unix!Teknowledge.COM!uw-beaver!mit-eddie!andante!alice!ark From: ark@alice.att.com (Andrew Koenig) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Small introspective program Message-ID: <20063@alice.att.com> Date: 18 Mar 91 13:48:21 GMT References: <4963@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> <217@hermix.UUCP> <1991Mar16.163213.9794@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> <15489@smoke.brl.mil> Reply-To: ark@alice.UUCP () Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Liberty Corner NJ Lines: 13 In article <15489@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes: > 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. No -- if you try to run your program, your implementation should complain that you don't have a function named `main.' -- --Andrew Koenig ark@europa.att.com