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From: Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Writing own source disk
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2024 20:24:36 +0100
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On 06/06/2024 18:00, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
> 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.
> 
I've got too much to do with the BabyXFS project.

I've got the get the shell as good as possible because it is a 
FileSyatem XML file editor, and it makes the format useful. And 
documentation needs writing. And I just don't have time for quines, but 
there is one of the site, and you ought to be able to compile it. I got 
it to work.

I don't know what you are interested in, but a pure ANSI C shell would 
be right up your street, I would have thought.

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