Sage

This self-replicating program written in 332 Mb1 (or 1/14th the size of Google’s codebase) was activated by invoking its “run” procedure: viz., the application of carbon-dioxide, water and photons.

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Figure 1: Self-replicating sage

All the code I’ve written (or will write) approaches not the majesty of this seedling: this imperfect quine approximating self-copies.

Footnotes:

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Prabin Bajgain et al., “Transcriptome characterization and polymorphism detection between subspecies of big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata),” BMC Genomics 12 (2011): 370, http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/12/370.