in reply to Quine generator

classical one was:

open 0;print<0>

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Re^2: Quine generator
by ambrus (Abbot) on Jul 16, 2007 at 08:30 UTC

    Classical ones are on the Quine page (which is apparently not maintained anymore).

    The shortest non-empty non-cheating one I know is (ends with two newlines)

    print<< x2,v10 print<< x2,v10

    Another that uses perl's various quoting operators to avoid having to escape stuff dynamically is (no newline)

    $a=q(;print"\$a=q($a)$a");print"\$a=q($a)$a"

    Update: see Short quines.

Re^2: Quine generator
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 16, 2007 at 19:45 UTC
    That's CHEATING!!!!