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Subject: Re: Writing own source disk
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2024 00:10:15 +0100
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On 02/06/2024 23:17, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
> Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Writing a prgram which writes its own source to standard output is a
>> standard programming problem. It's called a quine.
> 
> A quine must also not process any input.

No input at compile-time or runtime?

A compiler necessarily has to have the source code of the program as 
input, so what are the limitations? A C program can use #include; does 
that extend to directives like #embed, or is that considered cheating?