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| Jul 9, 2021 at 20:56 | comment | added | rw-nandemo | This paper is really nothing more than a high level introduction to the concept of a quine that goes absolutely off the rails at the end. Thompson's conclusion is that the existence of quines make trojan horses too hard to detect, so he demands the criminal code be updated and pop culture be engineered such that "[t]he act of breaking into a computer system has to have the same social stigma as breaking into a neighbor's house". Ridiculous. | |
| Aug 13, 2020 at 19:11 | comment | added | benrg | I agree with c69. This is currently the third top rated answer, but there's an enormous interestingness gap between it and the top two papers (by Shannon and Turing). Those two created new branches of mathematics. This one is... cute, I guess. | |
| Oct 29, 2017 at 22:59 | comment | added | c69 | Disagree - nothing awesome or mindblowing in this paper. TL;DR 6 pages from mid-80s about "need to change criminal code to start punishing hackers [just like thieves or burglars]". O yeah, mentions a quine, without calling it by name. | |
| Sep 10, 2013 at 6:50 | comment | added | Dennis | In the paper, I think figures 2.1 and 2.2 are swapped. | |
| S Jan 1, 2012 at 19:28 | history | suggested | CommunityBot | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 2, 2011 at 4:26 | comment | added | Fixee | I would think this paper would be pretty difficult to digest without at least knowing what a compiler is. | |
| May 26, 2011 at 5:23 | comment | added | Sebastián Grignoli | "Last week, Googler Ken Thompson was awarded the Japan Prize in Information and Communications for his early work on the UNIX operating system." (src: Buzz post from Life at Google) | |
| Sep 15, 2010 at 1:15 | comment | added | Lev Reyzin♦ | just read it -- awesome indeed! | |
| Sep 13, 2010 at 19:05 | comment | added | Jörg W Mittag | Also, very approachable. I read it quite some time ago, when I had basically no CS background, no programming experience and didn't even know what a compiler was. | |
| Sep 12, 2010 at 23:18 | history | answered | Jeffε | CC BY-SA 2.5 |