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I wouldn't say this is the most boring. In Python it is certainly an empty file. It was interesting to see the author work through the major obstacles one by o

• interroboink 4y ago
  Indeed. In C it is also the empty file, though it takes some compiler settings boogaloo to make it work. See: https://www.ioccc.org/1994/smr.hint https://www.ioccc.org/1994/smr.hint
• ilyagr 4y ago
  Yeah. I wish the article talked about "the most boring nonempty quine".
  • askvictor 4y ago
    Maybe the empty quine is not boring by virtue of the fact it's not like all of the other quines.
    • ilyagr 4y ago
      2 is the odd prime for the same reason.
    • deleted 4y ago
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  • yesenadam 4y ago
    Probably anyone reading this thread knows about this already :-) but that's like the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox
  • MitPitt 4y ago
    a non-empty quine in python would be `"hello world"`
    • chrisshroba 4y ago
      Just writing a string in a python doesn’t output that string to stdout
      • MitPitt 4y ago
        yes it does
        • chrisshroba 4y ago
          $ ~ echo '"Hello world"' > quine.py $ ~ cat quine.py "Hello world" $ ~ python quine.py $ ~
        • entelechy0 4y ago
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• panzi 4y ago
  Yes, and if it's about the most minimal non-empty quine pretty sure it would be this: s='s=%r;print(s%%s)';print(s%s) Anyway, let's make it a bit less boring and make it a C/Python polyglot (not relay) quine: #include<stdio.h> #define len int main(){char* #define zip return 0;} #if 0 def printf(f,*a):print(f%a,end=str()) #endif len s="#include<stdio.h>%c#define len int main(){char*%c#define zip return 0;}%c#if 0%cdef printf(f,*a):print(f%%a,end=str())%c#endif%clen%cs=%c%s%c;printf(s,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,34,s,34,10);zip%c";printf(s,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,34,s,34,10);zip Same in C/Ruby: #include<stdio.h> #define puts(c)void main(){c;putchar(10);} #define dup char* dup s="#include<stdio.h>%c#define puts(c)void main(){c;putchar(10);}%c#define dup char*%cdup%cs=%c%s%c;puts(printf(s,10,10,10,10,34,s,34))";puts(printf(s,10,10,10,10,34,s,34)) Wonder if one can make that shorter.
  • entelechy0 4y ago
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