Re: Fun with RPG: self replicating program

["Michael Ryan" <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>]

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