Re: How I Learned About Quines

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Re^2: How I Learned About Quines by Old_Gray_Bear (Bishop) on Apr 16, 2010 at 15:12 UTC
Quoting the redoubtable Wikipaedia: "Quines are named after philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine (1908–2000), who made an extensive study of indirect self-reference. He coined, among others, the following paradox-producing expression, known as Quine's paradox: "Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation" yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation. (Quine (Computing)) ---- I Go Back to Sleep, Now. OGB	[reply]
Re^3: How I Learned About Quines by BioLion (Curate) on Apr 16, 2010 at 17:15 UTC
Ah. So just a game then? I get square eyes trying to make programs that do stuff let alone clever stuff... Just a something something...	[reply]
Re^4: How I Learned About Quines by Anonymous Monk on Apr 16, 2010 at 22:50 UTC
Welp the whole DNA replication thing is sort of a quine - except for peeps the object has to produce not itself as output but a merge of it's self w/ another object... :)	[reply]
Re^5: How I Learned About Quines by Jenda (Abbot) on Apr 18, 2010 at 10:03 UTC
Re^4: How I Learned About Quines by chexmix (Hermit) on May 04, 2010 at 15:21 UTC
I'm in the same boat. But I love reading about stuff like this because it gives me something to look forward to as I get better at working with Perl. I mean, I'm 48, there's a chance I'll never get to the level of being able to do this kind of thing. But it is fun to think about achieving such facility. Goals're good. :^)	[reply]