Editing Quine (computing) (section)

==== Empty quines ====
In some languages, particularly [[scripting language]]s but also [[C (programming language)|C]], an empty source file is a fixed point of the language, being a valid program that produces no output.{{efn|1=Examples include [[Bash (Unix shell)|Bash]], [[Perl]], and [[Python (programming language)|Python]]}} Such an empty program, submitted as "the world's smallest self reproducing program", once won the "worst abuse of the rules" prize in the [[International Obfuscated C Code Contest]].<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www0.us.ioccc.org/1994/smr.hint |title = IOCCC 1994 Worst Abuse of the Rules |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112015540/http://www0.us.ioccc.org/1994/smr.hint |archive-date=12 November 2020 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The program was not actually compiled, but used <code>cp</code> to copy the file into another file, which could be executed to print nothing.<ref>{{cite web |title=Makefile |url=http://www0.us.ioccc.org/1994/Makefile |website=IOCCC.org |access-date=4 April 2019 |archive-date=23 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190423002150/http://www0.us.ioccc.org/1994/Makefile |url-status=dead }}</ref>