On Monday, 16 January 2017 at 09:33:23 UTC, Nestor wrote: > PS. Isn't this approach considered "cheating" in quines? ;) I'm afraid so - while the empty program has been technically accepted as being a quine (e.g. http://www.ioccc.org/1994/smr.hint) programs which use file io to read their own source have not.