Max line length (was Re: progra

Henry Spencer henry at utzoo.uucp
Sun Mar 19 07:45:29 AEST 1989


In article <225800141 at uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald at uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>... "at least one program" is a loophole larger than
>the hole in the Titanic. What if it indeed translated and executed
>one particular program by including the text of one specific
>program in itself, checking for that program, and then spitting out
>a hand coded compiled result? 

Does it matter?  Nobody would buy it after the word got around.

(Unless of course it was released by Berkeley with 4.22BSD or AT&T with
System V release 57, in which case thousands of people would buy it
automatically, and then complain about it being X3J11's fault.)
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