I have (what may be) a simple question—please forgive my ignorance: Roughly speaking, how complex is this capability, i.e. writing Quines? Perhaps stated differently, how surprising is this feat? Thank you for posting about / bringing attention to this.
I have (what may be) a simple question—please forgive my ignorance: Roughly speaking, how complex is this capability, i.e. writing Quines? Perhaps stated differently, how surprising is this feat? Thank you for posting about / bringing attention to this.
Why don’t you try writing a quine yourself? That is, a computer program which exactly outputs its own source code. (In my opinion,
it’s not too difficult, but requires thinking in a different sort of way than most coding problems of similar difficulty.
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If you don’t know how to code, I’d suggest at least thinking about how you would approach this task.