Worst Abuse of the Rules: Szymon Rusinkiewicz Massachusetts Institute of Technology 305 Memorial Dr., Room 005B Cambridge, Ma 02139 USA Judges' comments: To use: make smr ./smr Nearly every year, one or more people would submit what they claimed was the world's smallest self reproducing program. While the sizes of these submissions varied, a quick glance would reveal that they were too big, until this entry came along. While strictly speaking, smr.c is not a valid C program, it is not an invalid C program either! Some C compilers will compile an empty file into a program that does nothing. But even if your compiler can't, the build instructions supplied with this entry will produce an executable file. On most systems, the stdout from the executable will exactly match original source. In the future, the contest rules will specify a minimum size that is one character larger than this entry, forever eliminating this sort of program from contest. After all, how many variations can one make on this entry? :-) Selected notes from the author: The world's smallest self-replicating program. Guaranteed. Produces a listing of itself on stdout. Copyright (c) 1994, Landon Curt Noll & Larry Bassel. All Rights Reserved. Permission for personal, educational or non-profit use is granted provided this this copyright and notice are included in its entirety and remains unaltered. All other uses must receive prior permission in writing from both Landon Curt Noll and Larry Bassel.