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According to this comment from the general question Is it possible to create a quine in every turing-complete language? it seems like it is said that it's possible.

However I didn't find any Ook! Quine on the internet.

Do you think that it's really possible?

And if yes will we be able to find it?

Butanium
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    [This GitHub repo](https://github.com/mame/quine-relay) has a "relay quine" where each program outputs the source code of a program in the next language, eventually cycling round to the original program. Ook is one of the languages. So surely the answer is yes, it is possible to write a Quine in Ook. – kaya3 Mar 30 '21 at 14:43

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It wouldn't even be very difficult. You would want to code it in brainfuck and then translate, and the internal representation for each command should be a pair of numbers (probably from 0-2) to represent the punctuation of each half-command. You could borrow much of the structure from Erik Bosman's brainfuck quine.

Updated: here. https://gist.github.com/danielcristofani/1fe53487df1f7afcb5b91c06d95184b2

This is ~40 commands taken directly from Erik Bosman's quine, another ~120 freshly written commands of rather clunky output code to handle Ook!'s verbosity, and then the data segment to represent all that.

Daniel Cristofani
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