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From: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster)
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Subject: Re: Self-reproduction
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Date: 10 Oct 88 22:58:15 GMT
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A cute trick, not quite a self-reproducing program, but an interesting
example of a string that produces itself, is to take an arbitrary error
message, and hand it back to the interpreter as input. On many systems if
you repeat this 4-8 times, you reach a fixed point at which no further
change occurs. This is also fun with a C compiler.