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From: gnu@sun.uucp (John Gilmore)
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Subject: Re: palindromic C programs
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Date: Thu, 30-Aug-84 06:10:52 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 30 06:10:52 1984
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The ultimate here would of course be a program which could take
another program as input and produce a third program which at random
would be either a modified version of itself, or a modified version
of the program it read as input.  Of course, once in a while an alpha
particle will introduce a small change in the program.  It's a good
thing there are lots of small systems without parity, else evolution
would proceed much more slowly.