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---
title: Fun with Quines
author: Collin J. Doering
date: Feb 21, 2015
description: Self replicating programs
tags: programming
---
Quines are cute.
>"Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation" yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.
See wikipedia on quines: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_(computing)>
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``` {.haskell .code-term .numberLines}
a = "main = putStrLn $ \"a = \" ++ show a ++ \"\\n\" ++ a"
main = putStrLn $ "a = " ++ show a ++ "\n" ++ a
```
``` {.haskell .code-term .numberLines}
-- (C) Copyright Collin Doering 2013
--
-- This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-- it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-- the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
-- (at your option) any later version.
--
-- This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-- but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
-- GNU General Public License for more details.
--
-- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-- along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-- File: Quine.hs
-- Author: Collin J. Doering <rekahsoft@gmail.com>
-- Date: Apr 14, 2013
import Data.List (intercalate)
header = [ "-- (C) Copyright Collin Doering 2013"
, "-- "
, "-- This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify"
, "-- it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by"
, "-- the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or"
, "-- (at your option) any later version."
, "-- "
, "-- This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,"
, "-- but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of"
, "-- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the"
, "-- GNU General Public License for more details."
, "-- "
, "-- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License"
, "-- along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>."
, ""
, "-- File: haskell-quine.hs"
, "-- Author: Collin J. Doering <rekahsoft@gmail.com>"
, "-- Date: Apr 14, 2013"
, ""
, "import Data.List (intercalate)"]
dta = "main = putStrLn $ intercalate \"\\n\" header ++ \"\\n\\nheader = \" ++ \"[ \\\"\" ++ intercalate \"\\\"\\n , \\\"\" header ++ \"\\\"]\" ++ \"\\n\\ndta = \" ++ show dta ++ \"\\n\" ++ dta"
main = putStrLn $ intercalate "\n" header ++ "\n\nheader = " ++ "[ \"" ++ intercalate "\"\n , \"" header ++ "\"]" ++ "\n\ndta = " ++ show dta ++ "\n" ++ dta
```