Re: How I Learned About Quines

[GrandFather]

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__

Prints:

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

Adding strictures is left as an exercise (rather a trivial one to be sure) for the reader.

[blakew]

I believe that's called "cheating." :)

I started out with

open $fh, '<', $0 or die $!;
print while <$fh>;

which even then felt wrong.