Quines

[Gigafrost]

Pretty much, we've got the goal of making one for my CS315 class and, yay! I succeeded!

What a Quine is (or maybe it's just an example of one...I could check up on that but I'm lazy) is a program that prints itself out...line for line, character for character. The trick is, it's not allowed to read outside of the program in any way, even indirectly, so going to memory or reading the file or inputting from the console doesn't work. The program itself has to have the ability to print itself out...

Then, I've heard of the legendary multi-Quines...Quines that print different versions of their own program in different programming languages while still being able to print itself out in its current language...Ack! o.O I'm not even going to *try* to do that...for now anyways.

[Evlfrost]

Wow sounds complecated. I had to make a program for one of my classes. The network was screwing up so it would save right. Do you know how annoying it is to write the same program over 4 different times?

[Nyufrost]

Hmmm ... where have I seen this before?

[TerraFrost]

every CS student at the University of Texas at Austin is required to take a few CS classes to actually get into the major. one of the teachers of those required CS classes always requires his students write a program that prints itself out. I did it, and Krylanna probably did it (although she also might have had a different professor at that point).

Anyways, mine was designed slightly differently from Giga's... mine was easier on the programing side, as i just mushed the program into one really long line. Giga actually took the time to make his do carriage returns! way to go, Giga!