Re: How I Learned About Quines

in reply to How I Learned About Quines

My first Quine (although I wasn't aware it was called that) was written in C and I went through very much the process you describe. However some languages make it fairly trivial to write a quine. Consider:

seek DATA, 0, 0;
print <DATA>
__DATA__
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Prints:

seek DATA, 0, 0;
print <DATA>
__DATA__
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Adding strictures is left as an exercise (rather a trivial one to be sure) for the reader.

True laziness is hard work

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Re^2: How I Learned About Quines by blakew (Monk) on Apr 16, 2010 at 09:04 UTC
I believe that's called "cheating." :) I started out with `open $fh, '<', $0 or die $!; print while <$fh>;` [download] which even then felt wrong.	[reply] [d/l]

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