What are quines?
Thanks!
Christopher J. Meisenzahl CPS, CSTE
Senior Software Testing Consultant
Spherion
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From: ADATE [mailto:ADATE@kc.rr.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 9:31 PM
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Subject: Re: quines (again)
Cool!
Always good to know some clever quines.
– Shanko
“Bill Kelly” billk@cts.com wrote in message
news:001101c2487e$6d657500$fa7b1b42> @musicbox…
Hi,
Sorry if this is annoying, 'cause I
know we’ve done quines before, but
I just came up with this one, and was all “stoked and
stuff” (to use
80’s southern california vernacular 
p eval _=“print 'p eval =';”
Bill
Quine: program that prints out its own source code.
See The Quine Page (self-reproducing code) for more than you ever wanted to
know about quines (site also has some great links to other programming
trivia type stuff).
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On Wednesday 21 August 2002 07:37, christopher.j.meisenzahl@citicorp.com wrote:
What are quines?
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What are quines?
Thanks!
They are self-reproducing computer programs; i.e., those whose output is
the same as the source code.
This usage of the term “quine” seems to have been coined by Douglas
Hofstadter (I first saw Hofsteader use that term in his book “Gödel,
Escher, and Bach”, although he may have coined it previously), in honor
of the logician Willard Van Orman Quine, who extensively studied and
wrote about the concept of self-reference.
For more information about W. V. Quine, check out his (apparently)
offical home page:
http://www.wvquine.org
It’s maintained by a family member of his.
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christopher.j.meisenzahl@citicorp.com writes:
What are quines?
Jim
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“Build a man a fire and he’s warm for the rest of the evening.
Set a man on fire and he’s warm for the rest of his life.”
– Steve Taylor, in comp.lang.smalltalk
:quine: /kwi:n/ /n./ [from the name of the logician Willard van Orman
Quine, via Douglas Hofstadter] A program that generates a copy of its
own source text as its complete output. Devising the shortest
possible quine in some given programming language is a common hackish
amusement.
(see The Quine Page (self-reproducing code))
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What are quines?
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