Talk:Quine: Difference between revisions

I first came across these thingys (quines) in 1967 or so ─── they weren't known as '''quines''' when I first encountered them,   they were known simply as "reproduce (type/print) the (a) computer program language source to the console (terminal) or printer   ───   or somesuch phraseology.   I had never heard of a   ''quine''   before I saw it mentioned here on Rosetta Code when this task was created.   By the way, the word   '''quine'''   was introduced in 1979.   Nor have I ever heard of another name for it:   ''Computer Recreations: Self-Reproducing Automata'' (1972).   Now that is a four-bit phrase.   Other terms are   ''self-replicating programs'',   ''self-reproducing programs'',   and ''self-copying programs''.   I have addingadded these terms and others to the '''quine''' Rosetta Code task so as to make this task easier to find in case one doesn't know of the '''quine''' word or what it means.     -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 22:27, 8 June 2020 (UTC)