brainfuckquine

Is this possible to write a Quine in ook


According to this comment from the general question Is it possible to create a quine in every turing-complete language? it seems like it is said that it's possible.

However I didn't find any Ook! Quine on the internet.

Do you think that it's really possible?

And if yes will we be able to find it?


Solution

  • It wouldn't even be very difficult. You would want to code it in brainfuck and then translate, and the internal representation for each command should be a pair of numbers (probably from 0-2) to represent the punctuation of each half-command. You could borrow much of the structure from Erik Bosman's brainfuck quine.

    Updated: here. https://gist.github.com/danielcristofani/1fe53487df1f7afcb5b91c06d95184b2

    This is ~40 commands taken directly from Erik Bosman's quine, another ~120 freshly written commands of rather clunky output code to handle Ook!'s verbosity, and then the data segment to represent all that.