Harry R. Schwartz

Code writer, sometime Internet enthusiast, attractive nuisance.

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Quines

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Tags: computer-science, language, math, old-dead-white-guys.

Named after the American philosopher and logician W.V.O. Quine, a quine is a program whose only output is its own code. Here’s a neat example in Scheme, taken from the Wikipedia article:

((lambda (x) (list x (list 'quote x)))
'(lambda (x) (list x (list 'quote x))))

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