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On 04/06/2024 19:41, Malcolm McLean wrote:
> 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. But I need to get the babyxfs_shell to a 
> rather more developed state first to really give bbx_filesystem a good 
> test and stabilise it.
> 
> The power of BabyXFS quines is that you can just package an arbitrary 
> program as a quine. Because babyxfs_dirtoxml will simply package up any 
> source directory for passing to bbx_filesystem_quine.
> 
> So the idea is that when you have BabyXFS incorporated, it is trivially 
> easy to make your program into a quine, and, for open source, that is 
> exactly what you need.
> 

Sorry, but I just can't see the point.  Seems like you're going tp bloat 
your app just to add the quine thing.

If you want to distribute source, then there's tar, there's git clone, etc.

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