Chris Angelico wrote:
You can't get a program to program itself. That's called the Singularity [1], and depending on your point of view, it's either still in the future, or fundamentally impossible.
Quite likely it's provably impossible. A computer that can program itself for anything you might want it to do is equivalent to having a very general-purpose program that is capable of solving any problem. That's probably in contravention of Goedel's incompleteness theorem or something like that. Anyway, I wouldn't want such a computer -- it would take away all the fun! -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
