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From: chiefdan@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (ROTH)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog
Subject: Re: self-replicating programs
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Date: Sun, 22-Nov-87 01:06:58 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 22 01:06:58 1987
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>	There was an interesting discussion about self-replicating
>programs a while back in this newsgroup.  Umm, can people send me what
>they posted or what they've saved from it, pretty please...?  Help!
>This was a problem on our regional ACM programming contest, and the
>code for Pascal wasn't short.  I'm trying to show that the code for
>Prolog can be a lot shorter.  Please, help me, <sob>...
>
>						-ag hirai

That one was a pisser, wasn't it?

Pascal truly made that program a nasty thing to do.  (By the way, how did my
team end up doing?  I had to leave before dinner.)  I personally would have
voted for doing the program in lisp.  You know...

(defun x() (pp x))

That would have saved us all a lot of time.  I finally got one at the end, but
didn't get the sucker typed in in time.  Oh well.

Anyhow, I'm a novice in prolog and would appreciate knowing an answer for this.
How about re-posting it?

chiefdan