Post by twetch#1512

14p2Yk…SqKJ Key · twetch

A Quine:
A program which produces its own source code as output.

Also a Quine:
Scottish word for girl —> which is also a program which produces its own source code as output.

🤯

twetch#7453 6.5y

"if we had a unified theory, what would it look like"

... a quine?

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twetch#1512

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Replies (7)

13bnv8…zgTr Key · twetch
Replying to@14p2Yk…SqKJ

something like curl --libcurl out.c or a complete source?

14p2Yk…SqKJ Key · twetch
Replying to@13bnv8…zgTr

Eg. Bash

s='s=\47%s\47;printf "$s" "$s"';printf "$s" "$s"

14p2Yk…SqKJ Key · twetch
Replying to@13bnv8…zgTr

The latter

Eg. JavaScript

(function a(){console.log('('+a+')()')})()

13bnv8…zgTr Key · twetch
Replying to@14p2Yk…SqKJ

So a quine is a thing of interpreted langs?

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1H3ur5…7gz6 Key · twetch
Replying to@14p2Yk…SqKJ

you must be fae the highland. i never heard that word before..Quine goes back to Old English cwen, meaning a woman, wife or, as in modern English, a queen. or Older Scottish Tongue "quyne" refer mainly to young women in service or of poor financial means👍