If you have been an mIRC hobbyist for any significant length of time, you may have come to the conclusion that its scripting language holds no more mysteries and poses no more challenges for you. You may even lament the time you spent learning this shoddy language, with its flippant parser and its highly limited scope with respect to today's technology. However, if you should decide to go deeper, past..
A quine is a piece of code that, when executed, outputs its own source. There are a number of ways to create quines in mIRC script; the most apparent methods are those that have a sort of self referential component such as $isalias().alias, $read($script, n, $scriptline), or $timer($ctimer).com. A little more interesting are quines without an obvious such component, an example of which is given below.