replicator n.
Any construct that acts to produce copies of
itself; this could be a living organism, an idea (see meme), a
program (see quine, worm, wabbit,
virus), a pattern in a cellular automaton (see life,
sense 1), or (speculatively) a robot or nanobot. It is even
claimed by some that Unix and C are the symbiotic halves
of an extremely successful replicator; see Unix conspiracy.
Any construct that acts to produce copies of
itself; this could be a living organism, an idea (see meme), a
program (see quine, worm, wabbit,
virus), a pattern in a cellular automaton (see life,
sense 1), or (speculatively) a robot or nanobot. It is even
claimed by some that Unix and C are the symbiotic halves
of an extremely successful replicator; see Unix conspiracy.
Related:
- replicator n.
Any construct that acts to produce copies of
itself;
this could be a living organism, an idea (see meme)... - wabbit: /wab'it/ [almost certainly from Elmer Fudd's immortal
line "You wascawwy wabbit!"] n.
1. A legendary early hack reported on a System/360... - wabbit /wab'it/ n.
[almost certainly from Elmer Fudd's
immortal line "You wascawwy wabbit!"] 1.
A legendary early hack reported on a System/360... - fork bomb n.
[Unix] A particular species of wabbit
that can be written in one line of C (main()
{for(;
)fork();}) or shell ($0 & $0 &) on any Unix... - fork bomb: [UNIX] n. A particular species of {wabbit} that can
be written in one line of C (`main() {for(;
)fork();}') or shell (`$0 & $0 &') on any UNIX system... - toaster n.
1. The archetypal really stupid application
for an embedded microprocessor controller;
often used in comments that imply that a scheme... - virus n.
[from the obvious analogy with biological viruses,
via SF] A cracker program that searches out other programs... - letterbomb
1. n. A piece of email containing
live data intended to do nefarious things to the recipient's
machine or terminal.
It used to be possible, for example, to send letterbombs... - toaster: n. 1. The archetypal really stupid application for an
embedded microprocessor controller;
often used in comments that imply that a scheme...
