From: Karl A. Krueger
Subject: Re: More fun with Lisp
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 15:32:21 +0000
Message-ID: <ckoqi3$3gl$1@baldur.whoi.edu>

Till Kranz <·······@stud.uni-goettingen.de> wrote:
> quick question: What is a Quine?

The noise that a tired philosophy graduate student makes.

-- 
Karl A. Krueger <········@example.edu> { s/example/whoi/ }

Every program has at least one bug and can be shortened by at least one line.
By induction, every program can be reduced to one line which does not work.

• Re: More fun with Lisp Till Kranz
  • Re: More fun with Lisp Vassil Nikolov

From: Till Kranz
Subject: Re: More fun with Lisp
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 18:58:02 +0000
Message-ID: <opsfxdm0tm6j4zkn@darkstar-w2k>

Hi,

On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 15:32:21 +0000 (UTC), Karl A. Krueger  
<········@example.edu> wrote:

> The noise that a tired philosophy graduate student makes.

yeah, I know about the WVO Quine but I did not see the relation to  
programming

From: Vassil Nikolov
Subject: Re: More fun with Lisp
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 18:57:13 +0000
Message-ID: <lzis9aij92.fsf@janus.vassil.nikolov.names>

"Till Kranz" <·······@stud.uni-goettingen.de> writes:

> [...]
> yeah, I know about the WVO Quine but I did not see the relation to
> programming

  Perhaps not surprisingly, even "I'm feeling lucky" found a useful
  result when giving

    Quine programming

  to Google.

  ---Vassil.

-- 
Vassil Nikolov <········@poboxes.com>

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