User:DavidCary

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I'm interested in medical electronics and robots, so naturally I'm interested in Electronics and Robotics and Programming:Serial Data Communications.

That led to me becoming sysop on the Open Circuits wiki http://opencircuits.com/ .

I'm also fascinated by Data Compression.

I feel these Wikibooks should be merged:

I help maintain the WikiIndex at http://wikiindex.org/ so naturally I'm interested in Wiki Science.

Feel free to leave notes on my discussion page here or at Wikipedia:User_talk:DavidCary .

When the comments I've made on some Talk: page become obsolete/irrelevant, please don't *leave* them there. Reduce clutter. Move it to User talk:DavidCary.

I try to eliminate notes as soon as they become obsolete/irrelevant. (I delete my own, and move others to the Talk: page of the person who signed it.).

I think the ideas around quine programs are fascinating ( Wiki: QuineProgram ).

I've been working in Python recently. Here's a quine I've written recently:

#!/usr/bin/python
# quine.py
# 2012-02-29: DAV: started by David Cary

def quine(dna):
    print ( dna.decode('string_escape') + dna + '"""\n' + 'quine(dna)' )

dna=r"""#!/usr/bin/python
# quine.py
# 2012-02-29: DAV: started by David Cary

def quine(dna):
    print ( dna.decode('string_escape') + dna + '\"\"\"\\n' + 'quine(dna)' )

dna=r\"\"\""""
quine(dna)

I've been editing C Programming and some Category:Subject:C++ programming language wikibooks recently. Here's a quine I've written recently:

#include <stdio.h>
int main(void){char d[]=
"\n\\\"#include <stdio.h> /* ANSI C quine by David Cary 2009 */%c"
"int main(void){char d[]=%c%c%cn%c%c%s%c;%c  printf"
"(d+3,*d,*d,d[2],d[1],d[1],d[1],d+1,d[2],*d,*d,*d,*d,*d);%c  return(0);%c}%c%c";
  printf(d+3,*d,*d,d[2],d[1],d[1],d[1],d+1,d[2],*d,*d,*d,*d,*d);
  return(0);
}

Another quine I've written recently: (with some inspiration from another ANSI C quine I saw at http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?QuineProgram ):

#include <stdio.h>
extern char*d;
int main(){
  fputs(d+37,stdout);
  while(*d!=0){
    char c=*d++;
    if(('\\'==c)||('"'==c)){putchar('\\');};
    if('\n'==c){puts("\\n\"");c='"';};
    putchar(c);
  };
  puts("\";"); return 0;
}
char*d="ANSI C quine by David Cary 2010-01-26#include <stdio.h>\n"
"extern char*d;\n"
"int main(){\n"
"  fputs(d+37,stdout);\n"
"  while(*d!=0){\n"
"    char c=*d++;\n"
"    if(('\\\\'==c)||('\"'==c)){putchar('\\\\');};\n"
"    if('\\n'==c){puts(\"\\\\n\\\"\");c='\"';};\n"
"    putchar(c);\n"
"  };\n"
"  puts(\"\\\";\"); return 0;\n"
"}\n"
"char*d=\"";
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