wtf is a quine???
 

:quine: /kwi:n/ /n./ [from the name of the logician Willard van Orman Quine, via Douglas Hofstadter] A program that generates a copy of its own source text as its complete output. Devising the shortest possible quine in some given programming language is a common hackish amusement.

last fun coding trivia of the night, but LOOK at some of this code... it's f'in awesome.
http://www.nyx.net/~gthompso/quine.htm

yep i find hackerish amusment doing quines etc , i've been messing brainf*** recently.

I wrote one on my TI-89 in high school :)

Think of all the time you wasted, you could of been playing tetris.

I did plenty of that too.

Fuck Tetris, you could've been playing Breakout!!!

Self-reproducing programs? Kinda sounds like a worm to me...

Self-reproducing programs (aka: quines) are programs that, when run, output their source code. Nothing at all like viruses or worms.

Wow.. that is sweet. Now if only I could understand how to do it.

that's about what I said, Realizm ;)

WORD. Breakout and Pac-Man were my favorites. I had a scaled down version of Street Fighter II with only Ken, and Ryu as characters, AND you could play with 2 people using that link cable thingy.

Is it cheating to use an interpreted language, pick up your own script file and print it? That's a pretty short quine! And it's embeddable! Stick it in ANY Perl script to turn that script into a quine.

I've just invented the Universal Quine! There's a PhD somewhere with my name on it!

ratbastid, I'm fairly sure that the PhD with your name on it stands for "Piled high and Deep" :D

ratbastid, I thought you'd come out with a Perl quine... but that has to be cheating... ;)

i did some of those... good old times. and i also played alot of tetris! :)

Here's a quine in C:
Here's a polygot quine in C and TCL(works in both)
There's a way to make a quine in any language that supports strings, search google if you want.