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From: debray@arizona.edu (Saumya Debray)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Self reproducing programs (was Re: Problems needed!)
Message-ID: <1790@megaron.arizona.edu>
Date: Sat, 27-Jun-87 20:40:06 EDT
Article-I.D.: megaron.1790
Posted: Sat Jun 27 20:40:06 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 1-Jul-87 02:34:34 EDT
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Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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Summary: trivial solution

leonard@percival.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) writes:
> In almost any Microsoft BASIC _interpreter_ this "program" will work:
> 
> 10 LIST

The *really* trivial solution is the program consisting of the empty
string.  A "correct" compiler should compile this to produce the empty
object program, which when executed will generate the empty string as
output.

:-), naturally!
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Saumya Debray		CS Department, University of Arizona, Tucson

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