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Has anyone written a simulator in this style? You'd want to sandbox it so it doesn't get flagged as a virus, but it might be fun.
by willis936 3y ago
Has anyone written a simulator in this style? You'd want to sandbox it so it doesn't get flagged as a virus, but it might be fun.
- tetris11 3y agoIn a sense, the historic development of GCC[1] is similar to this, relying on the previous version of GCC to compile the newer, whilst making modifications to the parser to allow the new symbols to parse. 1: "Trusting Trust" by Ken Thompson https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thompson.pdf https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-tho...
- willis936 3y agoYes but always human in the loop. I mean a self replicating, source modifying program.