Elwood P Dowd's Journal: What are those programs called that output their own source?

Has anyone heard of the excercise of writing an application that outputs its own source code? I remember first hearing about it when reading about the Haskell programming language, and I haven't heard of it since then. I forget the word for this kind of application.

I want to write one, but for practical reasons not for intellectually stimulating ones. I spend my time writing TSQL and VB6. I'm not a very good programmer. So I'm interested in any kind of pointers that will help me along my way.

It'll be in Javascript, which I've never used before.

Edit 8/22 #2: Here it is. It validates XHTML 1.0 strict. Works in Firefox and IE6. Now I want to add some features to it so that it's self-descriptive.

I don't know what its called

[cyranoVR]

But in Mozilla's javascript implementation you have every object has toSource()

A Quine

[naoursla]

The shortest possible quine in Scheme is:

((lambda (x)
(list x (list (quote quote) x))
)
(quote (lambda (x) (list x (list (quote quote) x))))
)

where
(lambda (x) (list x (list (quote quote) x)))
is a sort of inline function
and
(quote (lambda (x) (list x (list (quote quote) x))))
is the value passed into the function.

Substitute the parameter for x everywhere in (list x (list (quote quote) x)) and you should get the original statement.