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| From: | Martin Jambon <martin.jambon@e...> |
| Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] Palindromic Quine |
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Keisuke Nakano wrote: > Hello, > > A 'Palindromic Quine' code is now wanted by a shortest-code contest at: > > http://golf.shinh.org/p.rb?Palindromic+Quine > > The code should be a Quine, which prints its own code without reading > its source file. Additionally, the code should be palindromic, which > reads the same forward as it does backward. Shorter code is better. > Lots of programming languages are available including OCaml, of course. > > Please submit your palindromic Quine to the above contest if you find it. > The deadline is Thursday, 7 February 2008, 16:46:39, GMT. > All submitted programs will be revealed after the deadline. > At present the shortest code in OCaml has 205 bytes. Here's a new non-palindromic OCaml quine: http://martin.jambon.free.fr/q.ml Maybe not completely legal and works only "ocaml q.ml"... but feel free to make it palindromic :-) Martin -- http://wink.com/profile/mjambon http://martin.jambon.free.fr