RE: [FWP] print thyself [golf]

["Larry Rosler" <lr@hpl.hp.com>]

> From: Clifford Hammerschmidt [mailto:cliff@marketingtips.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 10:04
> To: fwp@technofile.org
> Subject: [FWP] print thyself [golf]
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> We had a little competition at my work to come up with the shortest
> (non-empty) perl script that could print itself. The winner (Jeff
Anderson)
> came up with:
>
> $_=q(print "\$_=q($_);eval");eval
>
> Can anyone come up with a shorter one?

This is nothing new.  A Google search for 'Perl quine' turned up 147
references.

--
Larry Rosler
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Larry_Rosler/
lr@hpl.hp.com



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