Here's another vile challenge, this time from Adrian Howard .... I thought
readers may enjoy this one:
Adrian writes:
> PS For another little Pop-11 puzzle, try the smallest self-printing
> Pop-11 program. In some moments of idleness I got one that printed
> itself in 65 characters. Not the most transparent code in the world I
> admit. Assumptions:
> i) ASCII
> ii) class_print routines havn't been mucked with
> iii) You can skip the trailing ";" & newline character
Naturally enough, the empty program is disallowed. We are interested
in the smallest program whose length is at least one byte.
Steve
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