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Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 02 September 2013 11:04:17PM 6 points [-]

To me that sounds as absurd as writing a program that writes the entirety of its own code:

This is totally possible, you just do something like this:

Write the following out twice, the second time in quotes: "Write the following out twice, the second time in quotes: "

It's called a Quine.

Comment author: DanielLC 03 September 2013 04:06:36AM 4 points [-]

That's what I thought of at first too.

I think he means a program that is the designer of itself. A quine is something that you wrote that writes a copy of itself.

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