My Adventure Writing My First Quine in Java
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My Adventure Writing My First Quine in Java
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Re: My Adventure Writing My First Quine in Java
#2I consider this totally cheating:
$ python quine.py
import sys
print open(sys.argv[0]).read(),Re: My Adventure Writing My First Quine in Java
#3I consider this totally cheating: $ python quine.py import sys print open(sys.argv[0]).read(),
I couldn't do python for a long time because it made me feel guilty all the time.
Sometimes writing python literally feels like taking candy from a baby
Re: My Adventure Writing My First Quine in Java
#4I consider this totally cheating: $ python quine.py import sys print open(sys.argv[0]).read(),
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#5I consider this totally cheating: $ python quine.py import sys print open(sys.argv[0]).read(),
This misses the point of a Quine. You haven't written the code to generate the string, you've used an external library that someone else wrote to do that job for you.
I made this mistake the first time I tried too.
Re: My Adventure Writing My First Quine in Java
#6A friend wrote a neat C one a while back: http://dwcope.freeshell.org/projects/spinningquine/
Re: My Adventure Writing My First Quine in Java
#7In Lisp they're pretty easy:
((lambda (x) (list x (list 'quote x))) '(lambda (x) (list x (list 'quote x))))
returns itself (note: written in Clisp; I've had issues with Lispworks doing things properly). You can also stuff messages in there pretty easily:
((lambda (x y) (list x (list 'quote x) y)) '(lambda (x y) (list x (list 'quote x) y)) "Hello, world")
Re: My Adventure Writing My First Quine in Java
#8Here's a PHP->C->Python->JavaScript->original PHP quine I wrote a few weeks ago: https://gist.github.com/749686
And here's a little write-up on how I approached the problem: https://nolancaudill.com/2011/01/01/how-to-build-a-quine/
Re: My Adventure Writing My First Quine in Java
#9I consider this totally cheating: $ python quine.py import sys print open(sys.argv[0]).read(),
This misses the point of a Quine. You haven't written the code to generate the string, you've used an external library that someone else wrote to do that job for you. I made this mistake the first time I tried too.
Oh I know, hence I called it "cheating"
Re: My Adventure Writing My First Quine in Java
#10Python (triple quotes make this too easy):
def q(s):
print(s+'q(""' '"'+s+'"' '"")')
q("""def q(s):
print(s+'q(""' '"'+s+'"' '"")')
""")