Talk:Quine: Difference between revisions

:: And it's this idea that makes up a Quine - A piece of code, applied to itself, once quoted and once unquoted. (BTW, this then again is the same technique used to prove undecidability theorems.) And the extra requirement "should '''print''' it's output" is one way to enforce that the quoting has to be done by the program itself, not by some external read-eval-print loop.

:: The task is bad enough as it is (it doesn't really help in comparing programming languages), and it's not improved by allowing "fortunate" border cases which take away the main point. Ok, so what's the procedure to resolve differences in opinion? [[User:Dirkt|Dirkt]] 14:16, 21 November 2007 (MST)