Quine Programs

Quine programs are so named after the American mathematician and logician Willard van Orman Quine (1908/06/25 - 2000/12/25) who introduced the concept. Note: there is a short biography of Quine in the text (on page 729 of the 5th edition, and page 776 of the 6th edition).

Here are a couple of links:

A page about Quines in general. It has a Quine in ANSI C about two pages down from the top (and other ones below).
A page that has Quine programs in several languages. There are two C programs from this page below.

Quine C programs

quine1.c
A pretty standard C program. Note that if you download it, there are tab characters in front of the deeply indented code of the for-loop of print_string and the one line bodies of the two for-loops of main(); these may be expanded to spaces in the download process. Also, so that you can see the code, I have appended the suffix ".txt"
quine2.c
A much shorter C program that cheats by being on one line and not printing a newline at the end.

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Last Modified: Tuesday, 07-Nov-2006 09:20:03 CST
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