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From: sommar@enea.UUCP (Erland Sommarskog)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Self reproducing programs (was Re: Problems needed!)
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Date: Wed, 1-Jul-87 14:45:46 EDT
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In a recent article debray@arizona.edu (Saumya Debray) writes:
>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.

Which reminds of a Pascal compiler written at the University of Copenhagen
for Univac 1100. If you forgot to give it file to compile, it answered:
"No input, blockhead. Try again, this time with a program."


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