Short Program - David Gibbs please read!!!

Roger,

That's a pretty nifty little contest you came up with there.  It made me
think of the opposite though. What would the longest, most "Rube
Goldberg like" program be for listing its own source? There's something
to think about if anyone's interested.  Come up with the most complex,
convoluted logic, which must also work, to list the source of a program.

Tell you what...as long as David Gibbs doesn't mind...Somehow I ended up
with an extra, 1st Quarter 1999 Midrange Computing Resource CD this
month, which I will give away to whoever comes up with the most
original, most creative, "clean (no foul language or concepts)", most
convoluted, complex, funny and Rube Goldberg like set of logic for
getting a program to list its own source.

Just to make this simple, don't list any actual program code, unless it
helps to explain the logic. Also, the logic must work and it must all
work together to produce the final output. You are not limited to the
world of ether...either.   Let's keep this to simple English and
Psuedo-code type of logic.

I'll give you guys 24 hours or so to come up with
something...say...until 5 P.M. Central time on Friday, April 9.

Post the entries here so we can all enjoy them.

Shannon O'Donnell


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