Quines
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Named after the American philosopher and logician W.V.O. Quine, a quine is a program whose only output is its own code. Here’s a neat example in Scheme, taken from the Wikipedia article:
((lambda (x) (list x (list 'quote x))) '(lambda (x) (list x (list 'quote x))))