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From: Bald Eagle
Subject: Self-referential
Date: 26 Sep 2017 12:35:00
Message: <web.59ca80cd4ab459fbc437ac910@news.povray.org>
Because I know there's someone, out there, somewhere, with enough time and
energy and inclination:
;)   :D
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_(computing)

"Quines are possible in any Turing complete programming language, as a direct
consequence of Kleene's recursion theorem. For amusement, programmers sometimes
attempt to develop the shortest possible quine in any given programming
language."


And:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupper%27s_self-referential_formula

(How cool is that?)


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