Optimising Self-Replicating Programs
Harold Thimbleby · The Computer Journal · 1987
The following paper, 'Optimising Self Replicating Programs', would appear on the surface to be a contribution not to be taken too seriously.This is misleading.There is a serious point concerning the need always to analyse fully the logic behind what we are doing.I wish, however, to correct the author on one aspect of the paper; in his references he mentions a page in The Computer Journal, vol.29, no. 6.This particular page is not in the main body of the Journal but is in the Annual Index.The author should note that it is Editorial Board policy not to include in the main body of the Journal pages of the kind to which both he and I refer.Whether or not the reference to vol. 20, no. 4 implies the existence of'virtual journals' and/or 'virtual papers' I must leave to readers to decide: it is presumably a page fault.