Re: Fun with RPG: self replicating program -- MIDRANGE-L

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As per the referenced page...

"Devising the shortest possible quine in some given programming
language is a common hackish amusement."

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 5:29 AM, Jonathan Mason
<jonathan.mason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Shalom

I'm not sure I see the point in why anybody would want to write one.

Jonathan

Shalom Carmel wrote:
> A quine is a program that outputs an exact replica of its own code when
> executed.
> Examples are found on the quine page http://www.nyx.net/~gthompso/quine.htm
>
> Here is a link to one written in RPG
> http://www.google.com/base/a/1079085/D1238874474519648598?hl=en_US
>
>
>
>

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