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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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