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Interesting article. I'd never heard of this concept before and thought "That sounds trivial" until I started to read the article. I must admit though, I gave u
by Normille 5y ago
Interesting article. I'd never heard of this concept before and thought "That sounds trivial" until I started to read the article. I must admit though, I gave up halfway through when the C code got too esoteric for me to follow. But still feel I've learned something new today.
The article title seems a bit off though. When I read 'Self-Replicating Programs' [sic] it I immediately thought "Worms" but the article actually refers to programmes which can print out their own source code listing. Which seems to me to be a different challenge.
- credit_guy 5y ago> When I read 'Self-Replicating Programs' [sic] it I immediately thought "Worms" You are not wrong at all. At its base, any virus is a quine. Well, both computer viruses and biological viruses are quines. Life itself would not be possible without quines.
- cuteboy19 5y agoSource code inspection (or cp) is considered cheating for quines, normal viruses don't follow this rule