Posted by Benjamin Johnston on 2001-03-20
> Not quite sure what that is meant to do. It is actually a Quine... a program that when run will print its own source (without actually "peeking at is source", for example by dumping the file it was executed from). Unless you've got another Quine to work from (as an example) these are rather tricky to come up with, and some Quines are really quite clever. Take a look at "The Quine Page"; http://www.nyx.net/~gthompso/quine.htm They differ from virii in the sense that virii aren't printing their code to the screen - and because virii typically replicate by reading the actual bytes that are being executed (ie. they're cheating (from the point of view of a quine writer)). -Benjamin Johnston s355171@xxxxxxx.xx.xxx.xx
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