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From: ams@auspex.UUCP (Allan Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Silly programming problems
Message-ID: <1188@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 21 Mar 89 19:19:52 GMT
References: <817@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Reply-To: ams@auspex.UUCP (Allan Schwartz)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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In article <817@krafla.rhi.hi.is> frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) writes:
>I am looking for some silly but difficult problems for use in a contest.
>One example is the following:
>
>	   "write a one line C program that produces the source code
>	   to itself when run."

(seen before on this net):

main(){char*a="main(){char*a=%c%s%c;printf(a,34,a,34);}";printf(a,34,a,34);}


		-allan
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Allan M. Schwartz				         ams@auspex.com
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