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samnm/quine.go

Created December 11, 2012 22:24
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A super simple quine written in Go. This takes advantage of the '%q' format verb to print strings as they are represented in source. Run `go run quine.go | diff quine.go -` to diff the output and source.
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quine.go
package main
import "fmt"
func main() {
s0 := "package main\n\nimport \"fmt\"\n\nfunc main() {\n\ts0 := %q\n\tfmt.Printf(s0, s0)\n}\n"
fmt.Printf(s0, s0)
}
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