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Quine-Lang
Quine-Lang is an esolang based on Quine. Quine-Lang Prints it's source code.
Programs
Quine
Esolangs
and every other program
Name Printer
this program prints the name of the name of the esolang.
Quine-Lang
it's also a Quine program!
Implementations
any Implementation of this program is just a Cat program! so every Programming language that can make a cat program can also make Quine-Lang!
All *NIX systems (Linux, BSD, Plan 9, etc.) in accordance with the Single Unix Specification (SUS) have two standard implementations for Quine-Lang, cat and echo. Executing a Quine-Lang program can be done by running either echo [code] or cat [file]. type is another Quine-Lang interpreter from many DOSes, Windows, and ReactOS. Windows PowerShell has Get-Content which also does the same thing as the aforementioned implementations.