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What's your point? Oh let me guess. The rest of us are all idiots and this has all been solved already? Marcus G. Daniels on 01/03/2008 08:40 PM: > Here's a paper by Ken Thompson where he describes a regular expression > implementation based on object code generated on-the-fly for the IBM > 7094. The 7094 was a 60's mainframe had instructions designed for > self-modifying code. (Lisp predates that..) > > http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=363347.363387 > > Also note that ~8% of human DNA is highly similar to retroviruses -- > we're slowly being rewritten from the outside. > > http://genomebiology.com/2001/2/6/reviews/1017. > > ...and even by each other.. > > http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T3B-47HPGPW-4&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=937dc8c7b72003e57bbd2971e7ae71be - -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-219-3846, http://tempusdictum.com One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. -- Bertrand Russell -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHfb5OZeB+vOTnLkoRAoMKAJwK7LCgsbKcrle0z0AGMXPm3KftbwCfZ/KN NnfZQa+/phj21spObgcwo0A= =NCGS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
