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\$\begingroup\$ "Optimal?" A bold claim. Ken Thompson: "Last year I taught at University of Sydney I gave that to my class, the shortest self-reproducing program in C, and I got a surprise. I didn't think there was a surprise there to be had. But, I got somebody who has the shortest one I've ever seen, which is a record breaker, by about four characters of what I had proved to myself was the shortest program, and they did it by a totally different mechanism which of course nullified the proof." princeton.edu/~hos/mike/transcripts/thompson.htm \$\endgroup\$

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