OpenEuphoria

Re: Quine - a program that replicates itself

• Posted by Pete Eberlein <xseal at HARBORSIDE.COM> Aug 18, 2000
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Been there, done that :)


Pete

On Fri, 18 Aug 2000 13:50:19 +1000, Aidan Bindoff <abindoff at ONE.NET.AU>
wrote:

>Here's an interesting brain teaser - writing a quine in Euphoria. For those
>of you that don't know what a quine is: A Quine is a program that
replicates
>itself exactly.  A program that copies it's own code from disk does not
>count.
>I have attached my first quine if you are interested. This program takes
>advantage of Euphoria's native atom/sequence structure, and methods of
>displaying sequences. It does not write to disk, just to the monitor.
>
>I would be interested in seeing different quines in Euphoria. Euphoria's
>handling of sequences lends itself to many potential variations of quine.
>
>Kind Regards,
>Aidan.
>