From: Florian Frank <flori@...>
Date: 2002-02-10T07:06:33+09:00
Subject: Re: 'is a quine' is a quine

Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@clara.net> schrieb:
> 1) Write a quine, i.e. a program that prints it's own source.

It's easy to write a quine in Ruby:

_=["print'_=',_.inspect,';',_\n"];print'_=',_.inspect,';',_

> Extra points awarded for doing interesting things like encrypting or
> compressing any data (and including the pure ruby code to extract them

Hmmm, my quine doesn't deserve the extra points, but I think it's pretty
small even without compression. :)

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