Better yet Bob, why would you want too

On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 5:31 PM Bob Bridges <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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> Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313
>
> /* The kingdom of Heaven is not for the well-meaning; it is for the
> desperate.  -James Denney (1856-1917) */
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Robert Prins
> Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2020 18:53
>
> 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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