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From: keeshu@nikhefk.UUCP (Kees Huyser)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.lang.prolog
Subject: Re: self-reproducing programs
Message-ID: <142@nikhefk.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 24-Apr-87 08:47:03 EST
Article-I.D.: nikhefk.142
Posted: Fri Apr 24 08:47:03 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 25-Apr-87 20:37:21 EST
References: <3248@bigburd.PRC.Unisys.COM>
Reply-To: keeshu@nikhefk.UUCP (Kees Huyser)
Organization: National Institute for Nuclear Physics; Netherlands
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Keywords: fixedpoint
Xref: mnetor comp.misc:462 comp.lang.prolog:208

In article <3248@bigburd.PRC.Unisys.COM> lang@bigburd.PRC.Unisys.COM (Michel Lang) writes:
>
>I recall some discussion in comp.lang.prolog a while back
>(last summer?) about self-reproducing programs
>(programs which print their own text when they are run).
>Did anybody keep that information, by any chance?
>Does anybody have any references to any literature
>or any other information about self-reproducing programs?
>Many thanks.
>
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>Francois-Michel Lang			      Daytime phone:  (215) 648-7490
>Paoli Research Center, Unisys Corporation        lang@bigburd.PRC.unisys.COM
>Dept of Comp. & Info Science, U of PA                     lang@cis.upenn.edu


Try the following simple Applesoft Basic program :


	10 PRINT "HELLO, WORLD"
	20 LIST
	30 GOTO 10

I think this is what you were looking for :-)

-- Kees

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