Sujet : Re: Writing own source disk
De : ben (at) *nospam* bsb.me.uk (Ben Bacarisse)
Groupes : comp.lang.cDate : 03. Jun 2024, 14:47:08
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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.
-- Ben.
Writing own source disk
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