Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!sri-unix!adamm@BBNCCS.ARPA From: adamm@BBNCCS.ARPA Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: palindromic C programs Message-ID: <12960@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Wed, 29-Aug-84 11:44:26 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.12960 Posted: Wed Aug 29 11:44:26 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 1-Sep-84 10:42:50 EDT Lines: 25 From: Adam Moskowitz If this keeps up, we're soon going to have "Life" games in which C programs are the cells. Each one dropping little copies of itself all over memory until they take over the whole system. Mutants will spawn FORTRAN and Pascal and Modula-2 and (god forbid) Ada programs that go thru several half-lives until they return to normalcy. "Queen bee" programs will also start cc's in the background and the whole system will quickly grind to a halt, unless a oscillating, semi-stable pattern is reached. AdamM ---------- "Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death." -- Miyamoto Musashi, 1645 In Real Life: Adam S. Moskowitz Working for: BBN Communications Corporation ARPA: adamm@bbnccs (also CSNet) UUCP: ...!{decvax, ima, linus, wjh12}!bbncca!adamm /* Insert necessary (excess?) legal verbage (indentifying */ /* tm's, promising all views expressed are mine, etc.) here. */