[comp.unix.wizards] Parthenogenesis and Computer Science

bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton) (10/28/89)

In article <3839@solo9.cs.vu.nl> maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:
>
>Nowadays this behavior is mimicked somewhat by:
>
>	% ln -s /dev/tty c.c
>	% cc c.c
>	main(){printf("Hello, UNIX\n");}
>	^D
>	% a.out

% ln -s /dev/tty cc
% cc cc
<mystic miracles>
% mail -s "Let There Be C" boss

				--Blair
				  "Sort of a self-bootstrapped
				   language definition."