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From: Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com>
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Subject: Writing own source disk
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2024 12:54:17 +0100
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Writing a prgram which writes its own source to standard output is a 
standard programming problem. It's called a quine. And I have achieved a 
quine. But a serious quine. Not contrived special purpose code, but 
serious codde which can be used to package up source for real. And it's 
completely portable ANSI C. So of course it can't write output to disk - 
that is impossible to achive portably. Instead it writes its own source 
to standard output using a simle XML format called FileSystem, which 
represents the source tree.

And it's very exciting and the very first program has just been written, 
and its on the Baby X resource compiler guthub repository, and I 
encourage eveyone to get involved. I've achieved the goal. Now 
everything needs to be packaged up and presented to make it easy to use.

But this is a fantastic direction for the resource compiler.


https://github.com/MalcolmMcLean/babyxrc


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