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A quine is "a program that generates

A quine is "a program that generates a copy of its own source text as its complete output".

By Jason Kottke  •  Aug 31, 2004 at 04:44 pm

There are 4 reader comments

barlow  •  Aug 31 2004  •  6:48PM

I think a better use of spare time would be to actually read some Willard V. O. Quine books!

will  •  Sep 01 2004  •  11:14AM

Meet the mack daddy of quines: http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/

Nick  •  Sep 02 2004  •  3:43PM

I know a really easy one that works in many languages, the source is listed immediately following the colon:

steve  •  Sep 04 2004  •  2:12AM

A quine is a program that no at all really cares about.

This thread is closed to new comments. Thanks to everyone who responded.

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