Quine Time with David Cabana

David Cabana will enlighten us about what quines are, how to make our own, and we might even derive some surprising results about the nature of computing using what David shows us!

From David:

Some historical remarks for context, consideration of what a quine really is: a fixed point of the language evaluator function.

Detailed consideration of three quines: one each in untyped lambda calculus, Clojure, Java. Included in this portion is a step-by-step recipe for writing your own quine, in pretty much the language of your choice. It's easy when you know the trick...