Directory of Quines Resources

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Quines are programs that generate themselves as output (without trivial "cheats" such as reading their own source code). The term was coined by Douglas R. Hofstadter, and is named after the famous twentieth-century philosopher Willard V. O. Quine.

Resources in This Category

• A GNU Make Quine

  http://japple.freeshell.org/code/quines/
  This is a quine written for "make", specifically the gnu version.

• Quines

  http://www.madore.org/~david/computers/quine.html
  An essay on quines, programs which produce their own listing as output.

• The Quine Page

  http://www.nyx.net/~gthompso/quine.htm
  Examples of self-reproducing programs in various languages, with some extensions, including polyglot quines, iterating quines, and quine generators.

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