Hi Tobias, Josiah, Joshiah prompted me to reply via Twitter
> On 15 Nov 2016, at 19:27, Tobias Beer <[email protected]> wrote: > > I get the feeling there's mostly a philosophical point you'e trying to make > but reading the wikipedia article on Quine I would say TiddlyWiki sure ain't > one. Wikipedia defines a quine as: "A quine is a non-empty computer program which takes no input and produces a copy of its own source code as its only output" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_(computing) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_(computing)> For me, TiddlyWiki meets that definition; of course it is much more than a quine, but a key part of TiddlyWiki’s operation is the way that it saves changes by downloading a fresh copy of its own HTML file. Absent any modifications via the UI, and the saved copy is identical to the original copy. But I’d be curious Tobias why you don’t think TiddlyWiki can be classified as a quine? By the way, there’s a fascinating subset of quines that simultaneously function as ASCII art. This is a particularly noted example that also features animation: http://philipsung.blogspot.co.uk/2010/12/people-who-are-not-in-our-league-v.html <http://philipsung.blogspot.co.uk/2010/12/people-who-are-not-in-our-league-v.html> Best wishes Jeremy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/52623CD3-1B78-41B1-948F-D3FBF4F21882%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
