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Re: How I Learned About Quines

by ambrus (Abbot)
on Apr 16, 2010 at 11:45 UTC ( [id://835076]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to 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]

Update 2010-01-28: These unpack quines by mtve below are nice. Here's my attempt.

print unpack a44X44a43xaXXaaXaXaxaXaX4axa, "print unpack a44X44a43xaXX +aaXaXaxaXaX4axa, \"\\\nn"

Or, if you don't need the newline, this works too.

print unpack a35X35a34xaXXaaXaXXa,"print unpack a35X35a34xaXXaaXaXXa,\ +"\\"

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,!(@"
      well duh, just to complement that never-ending unpack
      print pack'a*c3X2a*c4X2a2c4X3a2c3X3c3X2c2Xa3cXc2Xa3',("print pack'a*c3X2a*c4X2a2c4X3a2c3X3c3X2c2Xa3cXc2Xa3',(",34,44,")x7")x7

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