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© September 2004 Tony Lawrence
2004/09/21
A self-reproducing program; that is, a program that creates a copy of itself. These have ben written in just about any language you can think of, and you can find multiple examples at http://www.nyx.net/~gthompso/quine.htm
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A quine falls into the same realm as hashing over atomic details of program code (see http://www.aplawrence.com/Blog/B1090.html).
--BigDumbDinosaur
Wed Apr 13 10:32:19 2005: 336 anonymous
Actually, quines are interestingin the security field also:
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