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Quines and my mad mind

I was just reading about quines and thought the following:

An language interpreter with a subprogram to output its own source is a quine.

What is a computer emulator with a subprogram to output its own circuit diagram as instructions to a Computer Aided Manufacturing facility that makes integrated circuits.

By Ed Earl Ross at 2011-01-16 17:32 | LtU Forum | previous forum topic | next forum topic | other blogs | 4372 reads

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By dmbarbour at Sun, 2011-01-16 17:49 | login or register to post comments

Von Neumann Machine

Brief section covering it in this wiki page.

By Andrew Moss at Sun, 2011-01-16 20:56 | login or register to post comments

Which is, of couse, what we

Which is, of couse, what we are talking about here.

By Ehud Lamm at Tue, 2011-01-18 04:20 | login or register to post comments

Of course

I knew it rang a bell...

By Andrew Moss at Tue, 2011-01-18 20:27 | login or register to post comments

Work together

Seems you need mechanical devices to make themselves and software to run it. It seems the hardware may exist before the software.

By Ed Earl Ross at Tue, 2011-01-18 20:40 | login or register to post comments

Thanks for the references

Neat tech.

By Ed Earl Ross at Mon, 2011-01-17 22:01 | login or register to post comments