Mohammed wrote (Dec 15, 1996):
I lied. The package is here several minutes early, and the URL is:
http://www.cbu.edu/~jorendor/interpol.tar.gz.uu
The puzzle isn't all that difficult. If I arrive at school later today and no solutions await me I'll be a little disappointed. :o)
Mohammed wrote (Dec 19, 1996):
> ----- BEGIN QUINE.I ----- > quine( << $ << ; "=;\n" << ; )=; > quote( "\"" swap . + << << ; "\n" << ; )=; > "quine quine. quote quine. quote."quine quine. quote quine. quote. > ------ END QUINE.I ------
breadbox has found the Treasure of the Interpol Mug. Congratulations! bb was the only player to send a solution. (In fact, he sent three, but this was the first.)
To be perfectly fair, this program uses an undocumented "feature" of the language -- script printing. Using script printing, even shorter self-printing programs are possible; breadbox sent me a 31-character one-liner earlier this morning.
And, /dev/joe suggested this one:
> Do error messages count? > > The following (3 lines between the ---) is a > really lame self-printing interpol program: > --- > Stray character ''' found. > stack dump: Stray > stack dump: character > ---
I probably wouldn't have accepted that, on the grounds that something doesn't qualify as a "program" unless it actually runs... but it's a very creative solution. Hats off to /dev/joe as well.