• To: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: Re: Semantics, Complex Systems, (XSLT) Programs which W rite Themselves
• From: "Roger L. Costello" <costello@m...>
• Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 08:21:46 -0500
• Organization: The MITRE Corporation
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John Cowan wrote:

> XSLT programs of this type are not *self*-modifying.  Rather, they modify
> other code that happens to resemble themselves.  It is then up to something
> outside the XSLT environment to re-execute the modified code.

Yes, I believe that they are called "self-reproducing" programs.

BTW John, I really liked your paradigm shift on the telephone operator story.
Can you think of a similar shift with programming?  /Roger

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