Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 Apollo 8/9/84; site apollo.uucp Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!wivax!apollo!rees From: rees@apollo.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sources Subject: Re: Thompsons self reproducing program Message-ID: <214b00b6.1de6@apollo.uucp> Date: Tue, 21-Aug-84 13:21:28 EDT Article-I.D.: apollo.214b00b6.1de6 Posted: Tue Aug 21 13:21:28 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 23-Aug-84 03:42:53 EDT References: <3457@cbscc.UUCP> Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, Mass. Lines: 6 Oh come on. We've been through this before. As far as I know, the shortest self-producing program in C is the one submitted by Berry Kercheval at Zehntel. It's 101 bytes. Here it is: main(){char q=34,n=10,*a="main(){char q=34,n=10,*a=%c%s%c;printf(a,q,a,q,n);}%c";printf(a,q,a,q,n);}