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CoRecursive: Coding Stories

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Compilers Are Hat, but They're Not Practically, Like, Maybe Not

Eunuchs is an example of a quine, where the code needs to reproduce itself musing assembly. The idea came from brian kernhan's podcast yucanlastut. i think it shows that qines are hat, that they're practical somehow, like, maybe not. They don't come up all the time, but there is uses for them, and very odd uses.

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