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From: broome@brl-smoke.ARPA (Paul Broome )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog
Subject: Re: self-reproducing programs
Message-ID: <5829@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 4-May-87 09:15:39 EDT
Article-I.D.: brl-smok.5829
Posted: Mon May  4 09:15:39 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 5-May-87 05:11:04 EDT
References: <430@ivax.doc.ic.ac.uk>
Reply-To: broome@brl.arpa (Paul Broome (CTAB) <broome>)
Distribution: world
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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Summary: self-destruction too!

In article <430@ivax.doc.ic.ac.uk> cdsm@doc.ic.ac.uk (Chris Moss) writes:
>Nobody has yet suggested a Prolog program that reproduces itself, so
>here's a start on the lines of the Basic one:
>
>clone :-
>	listing(clone).
>
>Any improvements?

No, except to suggest self-annihilation as an opposite of reproduction.
Here's a frivolous little program that removes itself.

suicide :-
	 abolish(suicide,0).