[HN Gopher] Writing the Most Boring Quine
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       Writing the Most Boring Quine
        
       Author : todsacerdoti
       Score  : 25 points
       Date   : 2023-03-02 15:01 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | koolba wrote:
       | My fav:                   #!/usr/bin/env cat
       | 
       | Or even shorter:                   #!/bin/cat
        
       | xamuel wrote:
       | No reason to stop at print("print()"), you can nest further,
       | print('print("print()")'). And then you can short-circuit the
       | process, write a single program which first does print(), then
       | print("print()"), then print('print("print()")'), then the next
       | level, then the next level, etc. And no need to stop there: once
       | you have that program, you can print IT. And then continue the
       | process.
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       | I've done this up to level omega^omega at my Library of Intuitive
       | Ordinal Notations: https://github.com/semitrivial/ions/
        
         | anderskaseorg wrote:
         | That's also the idea of
         | https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/48931/make-
         | the-..., where people have taken it up to much larger ordinals.
        
       | nick0garvey wrote:
       | I wouldn't say this is the most boring. In Python it is certainly
       | an empty file.
       | 
       | It was interesting to see the author work through the major
       | obstacles one by one when writing a quine. Glad they didn't take
       | the actual boring route!
        
         | interroboink wrote:
         | Indeed. In C it is also the empty file, though it takes some
         | compiler settings boogaloo to make it work.
         | 
         | See: https://www.ioccc.org/1994/smr.hint
        
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