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Quine (programming language)
Quine is an esoteric programming language created by User:IAM. In it, everything is a quine. It is basically the same thing as Text.
Hello world and quine
This is a Hello, world! program and a quine:
Hello, world!
Implementation
See also Cat Program.
All *NIX systems (Linux, BSD, Plan 9, etc.) in accordance with the Single Unix Specification (SUS) have two standard implementations for Quine, cat and echo. Executing a Quine program can be done by running either echo [code] or cat [file]. type is another Quine interpreter from many DOSes, Windows, and ReactOS. Windows PowerShell has Get-Content which also does the same thing as the aforementioned implementations.
See also
- Text, the exact same thing
- Quine-Lang, also the exact same thing