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From: Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi>
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Subject: Re: Writing own source disk
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On 2024-06-04 19:57:31 +0000, bart said:

> On 04/06/2024 14:40, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>> Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>>> On 03/06/2024 13:11, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
> 
>>> But from a practical point of view, yes my quine is  massively
>>> powerful. Most graphical programs do have images as source. And they just
>>> get zipped up into the FileSystem XML file. So any binary data can be
>>> included. Easily, Using exactly the same system.
>> 
>> I'm not getting it.  Why do I want a quine in connection to a graphical
>> program?  I want a way to include everything in the distribution, but
>> we've had that for ages.  Why is having a program that outputs something
>> you already have (by defintion!) of any use?
>> 
> 
> 
> My C compiler embeds the the standard headers it uses within the 
> executable. That makes for a tidy, run-anywhere application as it is a 
> single file.

There are not run-anywhere applications. Each computer only runs
applications that are written in a language that it understands.
Many computers only understand one language and no language is
understood by every computer.

-- 
Mikko