A Quine: A program which produces its own source code as ou…

something like `curl --libcurl out.c` or a complete source?

you must be fae the highland. i never heard that word before..Quine goes back to Old English cwen, meaning a woman, wife or, as in modern English, a queen. or Older Scottish Tongue "quyne" refer mainly to young women in service or of poor financial means👍

The latter

Eg. JavaScript

(function a(){console.log('('+a+')()')})()

Eg. Bash

s='s=\47%s\47;printf "$s" "$s"';printf "$s" "$s"

So a quine is a thing of interpreted langs?

Anything, here's C:

main(){char*s="main(){char*s=%c%s%c;printf(s,34,s,34);}";printf(s,34,s,34);}

Source:
https://cs.lmu.edu/~ray/notes/quineprograms/

lol