I was very impressed with the answers you sent in on last week's geek check. This was a pretty tricky item, but most of you correctly identified the code as Lisp and that it put into practice Willard Van Orman Quine's thoughts on self reference.
My hat goes off to David T. Smith, who not only knew these two answers but further pointed out that the code was itself the program's output. He also correctly tied Quine to one of my favorite authors, Douglas Hofstadter. Congrats go out to David and to all of the logical positivists out there!
Posted by Brad Shimmin at 11:44:13 PM
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