- This small algo project will get you acquainted with auto-replication problems and confront the Kleene recursion theorem.
A quine is a computer program (a kind of metaprogram) whose output and source code are identical. As a challenge or for fun, some programmers try to write the shortest quine in a given programming language.
The operation that consist of simply opening the source file and displaying it is considered cheating.
More generally, a program that uses any data entry cannot be considereda valid quine.
A trivial solution is a program whose source code is empty.
Indeed, the execution of such a program produces for most languages no output, that is to say the source code of the program.