A program that produces its source code as output

prakash.athani · 2008-10-07T00:52:06+00:00

Can anyone think about a program in any programming language of your choice which will post its own source code as output?

A program that produces its source code as output

prakash.athani

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Can anyone think about a program in any programming language of your choice which will post its own source code as output?

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Kaustubh Katdare

Administrator • Oct 7, 2008

No tries here? Where are our *crazy* computer engineers?

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sauravgoswami

Member • Oct 7, 2008

well its possible to write a programme to generate source codes,and it is possible here too,but the challenge is to generate codes according to the need of the hour,say less memory space,more sturdy,preference of tools so.on...

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sriramchandrk

Member • Oct 9, 2008

There are 3 types of executable programs (interpreted(basic, perl) , compiled programs (c, pascal) & semi interpreted (java) )

You can produce its own source code as output only in interpreted programs.

its possible for semi interpreted using a process called as decompilation but the output may not be exactly same as initial source.

It not possible for compiled program.

example for interpreted program using perl.
=========================

#!/usr/bin/perl

open(INFILE, $0);
while(<INFILE>)
{
print "$_";
}

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aashu_itdude

Member • Oct 10, 2008

this c++ code reads the source file and displays the code as output. Its not a perfect code for this query but it can be further developed.

#include<iostream.h>
#include<conio.h>
#include<stdio.h>
#include<fstream.h>
void main()
{
clrscr();
int c=0;
char a[238];
ifstream fin("out.cpp"); //name of program
while(!fin.eof())
{
fin.read(a,238);
}
puts(a);
getch();
}

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emYth

Member • Oct 12, 2008

Assuming that the source file names test.cpp

#include<iostream>
#include<string>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
    freopen("test.cpp","rt",stdin);
    string g;
    while(getline(cin,g)&&cin)
    {
      cout<<g<<endl;
    }
    return 0;
}

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Predictor

Member • Feb 23, 2010

sriramchandrk
There are 3 types of executable programs (interpreted(basic, perl) , compiled programs (c, pascal) & semi interpreted (java) )
...but there have been BASIC compilers and C interpreters. ???

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Manish Goyal

Member • Feb 23, 2010

import java.io.*;
class Source
{
public static void main(String args[])throws IOException
{
FileReader fr=new FileReader("Source.java");
int c;
while((c=fr.read())!=-1)
{
System.out.print((char)c);
}
}
}

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malardevi

Member • Feb 23, 2010

prakash.athani
Can anyone think about it and post replies?
I think try it by using the same file name in that program. open the same file read it and then print it. just try it.

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trishna05

Member • Jun 28, 2012

#include <stdio.h>
char*s="#include <stdio.h>%c char*s=%c%s%c;%c int main(void){printf(s,10,34,s,34,10,10);}";
int main(void)
{
printf(s,10,34,s,34,10,10);
}

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Sahithi Pallavi

Member • Jun 28, 2012

😕 😲 😒

PS : sorry for spamming.

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