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Quines - first(?)ones in Cobol & PL/I
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| Robert AH Prins 2004-05-19, 5:30 am |
| A while ago I posted a message to the mvshelp boards, see
<http://www.greenhousecafe.com/cgi-b...ic;f=1;t=003181>
on this subject, noting that Gary Thompson's Quine page
<http://www.nyx.net/~gthompso/quine.htm> doesn't have quines in either
Cobol or PL/I. A bit later I added my own smallest(?) possible PL/I
quine, which was developed after an original Pascal one. Then
yesterday a Peter Brown added another first, a quine in Cobol! It's in
the same URL. Look and enjoy (and FWIW, see if you can reduce its
size)
Robert
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Robert AH Prins
prino@onetel.net.uk
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| James J. Gavan 2004-05-19, 4:30 pm |
| Robert AH Prins wrote:
>A while ago I posted a message to the mvshelp boards, see
><http://www.greenhousecafe.com/cgi-b...ic;f=1;t=003181>
>on this subject, noting that Gary Thompson's Quine page
><http://www.nyx.net/~gthompso/quine.htm> doesn't have quines in either
>Cobol or PL/I. A bit later I added my own smallest(?) possible PL/I
>quine, which was developed after an original Pascal one. Then
>yesterday a Peter Brown added another first, a quine in Cobol! It's in
>the same URL. Look and enjoy (and FWIW, see if you can reduce its
>size)
>
>Robert
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>
Help this poor old ex Limey :-) . Didn't have any success - can you
give the exact page pointing at the COIBOL source program ?
Jimmy, Calgary AB
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| Robert AH Prins 2004-05-19, 5:30 pm |
| "James J. Gavan" <jjgavan@shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:0AOqc.537270$Ig.536905@pd7tw2no...
> Robert AH Prins wrote:
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><http://www.greenhousecafe.com/cgi-b....cgi?ubb=get_to
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> Help this poor old ex Limey :-) . Didn't have any success - can you
> give the exact page pointing at the COIBOL source program ?
The above "greenhousecafe" link works for me! You might want to
try <http://www.mvshelp.com/> and click on the "Help Boards"
link on the left. The quine is in the "Programming Languages"
forum. FWIW, there is now a second Cobol Quine. which is quite
a bit shorter than the first one!
HTH,
Robert
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Robert AH Prins
prino@onetel.net.uk
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