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Are there resources for making a quine that improve the development process or is it exactly as insanely tedious as it looks? Because this looks pretty impressi
by gatherhunterer 7y ago
Are there resources for making a quine that improve the development process or is it exactly as insanely tedious as it looks? Because this looks pretty impressive.
- techslave 7y agoWe don’t do this, that and the other thing because they are easy, we do it because they are hard. The tedium is part of the difficulty. Making it easier is not inspirational. Although buildings the tooling to do so would itself be quite the challenge ...
- taylorconor 7y agoUnfortunately it's a pretty manual, tedious and frustrating process, especially when the code is minified and you want to squeeze it into as small a source file as possible.
- austinjp 7y agoGratifying to read the author say that creating something as mind-boggling this was tedious and frustrating. It's great, by the way :)
- klyrs 7y agoA generic (pseudo) quine is: s = "print escape(s)\n{payload}" print "s = " print escape(s) {payload} So if you wanna do extra stuff on top of being a quine, just write that program and bootstrap with escape()
- akkartik 7y agohttp://www.madore.org/~david/computers/quine.html http://www.madore.org/~david/computers/quine.html
- gatherhunterer 7y agoThanks for the reference.
- User23 7y agoAlso https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleene's_recursion_theorem https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleene's_recursion_theorem