Computa-bull

If you ever want to flex your programming muscle, pick a language and write a quine in it. A quine is a computer program that performs a single function: It simply prints its own source code and then terminates. There are many ways to write a quine, techniques differ by language, and some ways are definitely more hackish/cheatish than others.

I sat down and wrote a quine in Python today, and it took me about 20 minutes. It really felt like an amazing experience; imagine having a program that lets you do this:

$ python quine.py > out1 && python out1 > out2 && python out2 > out3 && python out3 > out4 && ....

It simultaneously rewards and boggles the mind!

If you want to checkout my quine, look in the Fun Stuff page of this site.

This entry was posted on November 24, 2011 at 2:17 am and is filed under Uncategorized.