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::: Hi and welcome to RC. With 1200+ tasks on RC nowadays, I know it can be difficult to figure out what's been done before so no worries there :) Happy to let the task stand on the present basis now. --[[User:PureFox|PureFox]] ([[User talk:PureFox|talk]]) 21:18, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
:::: I first came across these thingys in 1967 --- they weren't known as '''quines''' when I first encountered them, they were known simply as "reproduce (type/print) the computer program source to the console (terminal) or printer ─── or somesuch phraseology. I had never heard of a ''quine'' before I saw it mentioned here on Rosetta Code when the task was created. By the way, the word '''quine''' was introduced in 1979. Nor have I ever heard of another name for it: ''Computer Recreations: Self-Reproducing Automata'' (1972). Now that is a four-bit phrase. Other terms are ''self-replicating programs'', ''self-reproducing programs'', and ''self-copying programs''. I will be adding these terms and others to the '''quine''' Rosetta Code task so as to make that task easier to find in case one doesn't know of the '''quine''' word or what it means. -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 21:48, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
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