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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: Writing own source disk
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2024 18:00:29 +0100
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Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> writes:

> On 04/06/2024 14:33, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>> 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?
>> 
> Yes. Tht's the heart of it.
>
> I'll start a quine project.

I am just more confused now.  Presumably that does not matter since I
don't think you need me to know what's going on.  And I am pretty sure
that whatever purpose your quine serves, it is intended to benefit users
who are not at all like me.

-- 
Ben.