Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by onions 5432 days ago
Yes, I think a "Cartesian" quine would be pretty tough to create, because you're going from a symbolic representation to an inefficient visual representation. Could a more efficient visual representation solve it? One approach might be to output a bitmap that looks like this:

gunzip(########)

where ######## is a bitmap representation of the raw input to gunzip.