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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: Writing own source disk
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2024 14:33:39 +0100
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Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> writes:

> On 03/06/2024 14:47, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>> Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> writes:
>> 
>>> On Sun, 2 Jun 2024 12:54:17 +0100
>>> Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Writing a prgram which writes its own source to standard output is a
>>>> standard programming problem. It's called a quine.
>>>
>>> Is it named after Willard Van Orman Quine?
>> In honour of rather than after since "after" is usually used for
>> discoverers.  It was Douglas Hofstadter who coined the term.
>>
>
> /* source for a quine */

There seems to be loads missing.  How big it the program when it's all
there or, since it's a quine, what is the size of text it outputs?

-- 
Ben.