On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 08:06:36PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > Are you really asserting that a single program can be both interactive and > engaging in an act of redistributing its source code at the same time? > > That sounds ludicrous and farfetched to me, given that both statements, by > themselves, are already farfetched in this circumstance. Well, it certainly seems plausible that at least some programs can do this. Consider a quine attached to a network socket. -- G. Branden Robinson | Imagination was given man to Debian GNU/Linux | compensate for what he is not, and branden@debian.org | a sense of humor to console him for http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | what he is.
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