25 BAT FILES BUILDING BAT FILES
In our post-industrial age, manufacturers can build a toaster with relative ease, but no one has ever built a toaster that can build another toaster, and I’m going out on a very short limb to say no manufacturer ever will. Robots, at least in part, can build robots, but cars don’t build cars, and smartphones aren’t smart enough to build phones of any intellect. In the realm of software, however, code conceives code, programs propagate programs, and bats beget bats.
This chapter isn’t about flying mammal procreation, but instead discusses the technique of one bat file creating another bat file. Several languages ...
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