This has been bugging me recently. Any quines or pointers to relevant articles or web pages is appreciated. Thanks!
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Quine
//kwaɪn//
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Finnish
3 entries- quine noun (program that outputs its own source code)
- kieltää (tosiasia) verb (to deny the existence or significance of (something obviously real or important))
- liittää lainauksena itseensä verb (to append (a text) to a quotation of itself)
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1 entries- Quine noun (program that outputs its own source code)
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Self-reproducing programs are commonly called quines. Do a web search, it should turn up lots of them. There was also a quine thread here in comp.lang.c just days ago, search deja.com (the thread's title was something about self-printing programs, I think).
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A quine is a program that can print its own source code. Most quines are notoriously difficult (and fiendish) to write. Perl can cheat, though. :)
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Why have a one-page chapter that doesn't say anything? At the least, you should present a quine program written in pure ISO C (I can send you one if you like); […] you might refer the interested reader to Ken Thompson's ACM lecture or to another good source of quine-related puzzles. Quines *are* a lot of fun, but why waste time with trivial ASCII-based examples when there are much more fundamental ways to create them?
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