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Puzzle

Can you write a scheme expression that prints itself?

(Hint: Consider how a cell reproduces. It contains its own blueprint (the DNA strand in the nucleus); reproduction involves (a) copying the blueprint, (b) implementing the blueprint. That is, it uses the blueprint twice.)



Michael E. Leventon
Tue Mar 23 09:50:05 EST 1999