I started to skip this one without reading carefully, but then the term caught
my eye. "Quine"...quine...Doggone, I'm sure I've heard of it. In fact, I'm
morally certain Douglas Hofstadter talked about them, right? Which means they
must be some kind of paradox or self-referential joke. Finally gave in and
clicked on the link. Yeah, that was it.
(Not a quine: "Thit sentence contains exactly threee errors.")
Delays, delays...
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Another interesting page, with Quines, can be found on rosettacode.org
<http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Quine>. Here a version in z/OS assembler is still
missing, and the versions that compile with z/OS Cobol seem to be quite big.
The
PL/I versions are probably optimal, although I would love to be proved wrong.
Some shorter non-cheating REXX Quines can be found on
<http://www.nyx.net/~gthompso/quine.htm>, which also has an APL version which
is
not on the page on Rosetta.
And then, not really a Quine, there's this one,
<https://github.com/mame/quine-relay>
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