From: Aaron Patterson <aaron@...>
Date: 2007-10-22T11:34:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Self-replicating Ruby

On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 11:25:02AM +0900, Frank J. Lhota wrote:
> Dear Ruby fans,
> 
> A common Lisp exercise is to write a Lisp program that writes its own
> source code to standard output. Reading from a source file is not
> permitted.
> 
> This leads one to wonder: what is the smallest and / or most elegant
> Ruby program that writes its own source code to standard output? As
> with Lisp, reading from a file is not permitted. Given the nature of
> the language, this problem should  should have a lot of interesting
> solutions.

This is called a Quine, right?  I can't beat Ryan Davis', so I'll just
link to it.  :-)

http://blog.zenspider.com/archives/2006/09/ruby_quine__sli.html

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Aaron Patterson
http://tenderlovemaking.com/