Comments on: Self-Reproducing Program in Groovy http://extrabright.com/blog/2009/06/07/self-reproducing-program-in-groovy/ //pat's blog Sat, 10 Jul 2010 20:55:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: pajai http://extrabright.com/blog/2009/06/07/self-reproducing-program-in-groovy/comment-page-1/#comment-90394 pajai Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:23:53 +0000 http://extrabright.com/blog/?p=171#comment-90394 @Alex I was wondering also if there was an easier way to do it, as you suggest, to have a way to reference the source file. Of course this would work only for script languages (which are not compiled). Groovy is a bit in between, since it is normally compiled to byte code, but there are also ways to execute (after on-the-fly compilation) a groovy source code. @Ben I recon. But it's an interesting problem (I think). @Alex

I was wondering also if there was an easier way to do it, as you suggest, to have a way to reference the source file. Of course this would work only for script languages (which are not compiled). Groovy is a bit in between, since it is normally compiled to byte code, but there are also ways to execute (after on-the-fly compilation) a groovy source code.

@Ben

I recon. But it’s an interesting problem (I think).

]]> By: BenPorter http://extrabright.com/blog/2009/06/07/self-reproducing-program-in-groovy/comment-page-1/#comment-90369 BenPorter Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:25:20 +0000 http://extrabright.com/blog/?p=171#comment-90369 Wow, that's so nerdy Pat! Wow, that’s so nerdy Pat!

]]> By: Alex Schröder http://extrabright.com/blog/2009/06/07/self-reproducing-program-in-groovy/comment-page-1/#comment-90302 Alex Schröder Sun, 07 Jun 2009 23:25:35 +0000 http://extrabright.com/blog/?p=171#comment-90302 Much less geeky but always useful was Perl's ability to refer to the source file, allowing you to trivially write CGI scripts that print their own source code. Excellent for software licensed using the GNU Affero General Public License. A simple example I wrote myself a while ago: http://emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/m20-hard-core-characters And the Affero license link: http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/agpl-3.0.html That's the license used by Laconica, for example. http://identi.ca/ Much less geeky but always useful was Perl’s ability to refer to the source file, allowing you to trivially write CGI scripts that print their own source code. Excellent for software licensed using the GNU Affero General Public License.

A simple example I wrote myself a while ago:
http://emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/m20-hard-core-characters

And the Affero license link:
http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/agpl-3.0.html

That’s the license used by Laconica, for example.
http://identi.ca/

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