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To be completely accurate, a Quine is a program whose output is exactly the same as it's complete source code. It's named in honor of Willard Van Orman Quine, an influential mathematician and philosopher who died in 2000. Quine programming is a common CS school homework assignment. Some related reading: http://www.wvquine.org/ http://www.nyx.net/~gthompso/quine.htm -Dan > From: Florian Cramer <cantsin@zedat.fu-berlin.de> > Reply-To: Florian Cramer <cantsin@zedat.fu-berlin.de> > Date: 2003年3月25日 19:03:20 +0100 > To: nettime-l@bbs.thing.net > Subject: <nettime> unstable digest vol 39 > > From: Harwood <Harwood@scotoma.org> > To: reader-list@mail.sarai.net > Subject: [Reader-list] war.pl > Date: 2003年3月17日 23:15:08 +0000 > > A little something I came across recently > It's a quine - a self replicating programme <...> # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net