Hi All,
Here's a wee bit of fun I've been having. Its sort of a golf problem,
but not. All of the perl quine [*1] examples I've seen [*2] have large
amounts of punctuation. I've managed to get it down to just a comma and
a dollar.
print readline open print, $0
Any offers?
Alistair
[*1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine
[*2] http://www.nyx.net/~gthompso/self_perl.txt
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