The world's smallest self-replicating program
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Re: The world's smallest self-replicating program
#2lol not quite in the spirit of the challenge.
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#3For those not understanding and wanting to see the "source" for this entry... it was a Zero byte file.
Re: The world's smallest self-replicating program
#4Is the copyright notice supposed to apply to the empty program?
Re: The world's smallest self-replicating program
#5lol not quite in the spirit of the challenge.
Forcing the creation of a new contest rule is a tradition in the IOCCC.
Re: The world's smallest self-replicating program
#6For those not understanding and wanting to see the "source" for this entry... it was a Zero byte file.
Download here: http://www.ioccc.org/1994/smr.c
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#7The Makefile is the most interesting part: http://www.ioccc.org/1994/Makefile
smr: smr.c
@${RM} -rf smr
${CP} smr.c smr
${CHMOD} +x smr
Re: The world's smallest self-replicating program
#8lol not quite in the spirit of the challenge.
Forcing the creation of a new contest rule is a tradition in the IOCCC.
Meh. Empty program doesn't replicate itself. It's similar to recent rule-nitpick discussion about selling for 0$. Selling for 0$ isn't selling and nothing isn't replicating itself.
Definition of replicate is: to repeat or copy (something) exactly
Empty program doesn't copy or repeat anything. Entry rejected.
EDIT: It's not reddit, downvotes doesn't go here for disagreeing. The problem is posed in natural language and it has its own rules. In natural language (at least in English) doing nothing isn't copying or replicating. You may check the dictionaries.
Next time someone will claim claim 1 million sales: million nothings for 0 dollars to nobodies.
EDIT (to other child)
Yes, empty set is subset of other sets but that's because the definition of subset. Copy or replicate in natural language (in which the problem is posed) mean something entirely different.
Re: The world's smallest self-replicating program
#9 smr: smr.c
@${RM} -rf smr
${CP} smr.c smr
${CHMOD} +x smrRe: The world's smallest self-replicating program
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Forcing the creation of a new contest rule is a tradition in the IOCCC.
Meh. Empty program doesn't replicate itself. It's similar to recent rule-nitpick discussion about selling for 0$. Selling for 0$ isn't selling and nothing isn't replicating itself. Definition of replicate is: to repeat or copy (something) exactly Empty program doesn't copy or repeat anything. Entry rejected. EDIT: It's not reddit, downvotes doesn't go here for disagreeing. The problem is posed in natural language and…
I disagree. You are copying something exactly. Just because that something is empty does not mean it's not being copied. Using cp, by definition of the command, is copying something.