meaning of replicator

1. replicator 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, fork bomb, and virus, a pattern in a cellular automaton see life, 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. [Jargon File] reply See followup. Repondez sil vous plait RÚpondez sil vous plait Report Program Generator RPG An IBM programming language developed by Wilf Hey at IBM in 1965 for easy production of sophisticated large system reports. RPG is a 3GL similar to COBOL, but more concise and supposedly easier for non-programmers to use. It processes its input one line at a time and does not treat tables as conceptual entities. It was popular on System 34/36 minicomputers. Versions: RPG II, RPG III, RPG/400 for IBM AS/400. MS-DOS versions by California Software and Lattice. Unix version by Unibol. Cross-platform version by J & C Migrations runs on MS-DOS, Windows, AIX, HP-UX, and OS/390. See also CL, OCL.

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