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- From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,alt.sources
- Subject: Re: Small introspective program
- Message-ID: <4963@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
- Date: 14 Mar 91 00:22:23 GMT
-
- The subject line is seriously misleading. None of the examples that
- has been posted has anything to do with INTROSPECTION (one might call
- 3-Lisp introspective, perhaps even Scheme, with its built in function
- call-with-current-continuation). They are SELF-REPRODUCING programs,
- which is something rather different. A program would be introspective
- if it could take a step back from itself and watch its own workings.
- (One might even call a UNIX program that has called monitor() or profil()
- an introspective program.) Self-reproducing programs are old hat.
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