in reply to Re: Self-printing program
in thread Self-printing program

According to the defination on http://www.nyx.net/~gthompso/quine.htm, a quine is a program that generates a copy of its own source text as its complete output. So you do need a quine to have a program print its own source, since that is exactly the definition of a quine :)

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Re: Re: Re: Self-printing program
by diotalevi (Canon) on Apr 02, 2004 at 17:29 UTC
    I was thinking of the other variation where people stick a copy of the program's source in the program source. I regularly write my perlmonks CGIs to include a method for printing the program's source and I've never stopped to consider that my two-line view_source() function makes the CGI a quine.
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