[net.sources] Thompson's self-duplicating program

mike@whuxl.UUCP (BALDWIN) (08/21/84)

[In reference to Thompson's paper in the last ACM Computer Magazine]
The shortest self-duplicating C program I've seen is:

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

It doesn't have a newline at the end.  It's a slight
variation of something I saw a while ago somewhere...

							Michael Baldwin
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