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Hofstadter, what have you done to me
Sep. 5th, 2007 12:41 amThere comes a time in every person's life when he or she must quine. This evening, gentle readers, that bell tolled for me. I was pretty happy with my initial attempt in Python:
Not very advanced stuff, sure, but it gets the job done (without backticks!).
Here is an attempt to write a quine in Processing. The approach I used there is slightly different from the Python code above; it also draws its own source in the applet window, which is kind of fun. You can see the rigamarole I had to go through in order to cope with Java's (apparent) lack of a multiline quoting structure, along with my desire to keep the code easy to read.
Suggestions and feedback solicited: at this point, I'm just relieved to have finally understood the concept of a quine after all these years.
Links: More information on quines, Python quines written by people more clever than me.
qu = '\x22\x22\x22' def pr(p): print p; print "pr(r%s%s%s)" % (qu,p,qu) pr(r"""qu = '\x22\x22\x22' def pr(p): print p; print "pr(r%s%s%s)" % (qu,p,qu)""")
Not very advanced stuff, sure, but it gets the job done (without backticks!).
Here is an attempt to write a quine in Processing. The approach I used there is slightly different from the Python code above; it also draws its own source in the applet window, which is kind of fun. You can see the rigamarole I had to go through in order to cope with Java's (apparent) lack of a multiline quoting structure, along with my desire to keep the code easy to read.
Suggestions and feedback solicited: at this point, I'm just relieved to have finally understood the concept of a quine after all these years.
Links: More information on quines, Python quines written by people more clever than me.
