Dont even bother wasting your time reading over my node here. I was unaware that it had been done so many times before. Sorry! :(

OK, I was recently given this problem. Its not too hard, but its a fun little problem to figure out. The goal was to make a perl script that prints out a perl script, that prints out a perl script, and on and on. The trick was that it couldn't read itself in (so no using open(M,$0);). Well anyways, the following is the code I wrote to solve it: 
$dna = '$dna = CAC;B%t = (C65C,"$dna",C66C,"\n",C67C,"C");Bfor($i=0;$i
+<153;$i++)B{$q = ord(substr($dna,$i,1));Bif ($t{$q}) {print $t{$q};}B
+else {print chr($q);}}';
%t = ('65',"$dna",'66',"\n",'67',"'");
for($i=0;$i<153;$i++)
{$q = ord(substr($dna,$i,1));
if ($t{$q}) {print $t{$q};}
else {print chr($q);}}

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I know its not the greatest, but I like to hear other people's suggestions on how to make it shorter.

In reply to Asexual Perl Code by beefalo

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