Re: How I Learned About Quines

Apart from the webpages you mention, there's also Douglas Hofstadter's book Gödel, Escher, Bach. For perl specifically, there's my Short quines.

Update: These days I also started to like quines that look like this:

print+("\\","\"",",","print+(",")[3,1,0,0,1,2,1,0,1,1,2,1,2,1,2,1,3,1,
+2,1,4,1,4]")[3,1,0,0,1,2,1,0,1,1,2,1,2,1,2,1,3,1,2,1,4,1,4]
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Update 2010-01-28: These unpack quines by mtve below are nice. Here's my attempt.

print unpack a44X44a43xaXXaaXaXaxaXaX4axa, "print unpack a44X44a43xaXX
+aaXaXaxaXaX4axa, \"\\\nn"
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Or, if you don't need the newline, this works too.

print unpack a35X35a34xaXXaaXaXXa,"print unpack a35X35a34xaXXaaXaXXa,\
+"\\"
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Update 2012-12-12: see also General quine, Short quines.

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Re^2: How I Learned About Quines by mtve (Deacon) on Mar 03, 2011 at 18:04 UTC
uuencode to the rescue! `print unpack a27uX30a30X3u,"print unpack a27uX30a30X3u,!(@"`
Re^3: How I Learned About Quines by mtve (Deacon) on Mar 04, 2011 at 20:34 UTC
well duh, just to complement that never-ending unpack `print pack'ac3X2ac4X2a2c4X3a2c3X3c3X2c2Xa3cXc2Xa3',("print pack'ac3X2ac4X2a2c4X3a2c3X3c3X2c2Xa3cXc2Xa3',(",34,44,")x7")x7` [download]

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