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Wiktionary
n. (context computing English) A program that produces its own source code as output. vb. 1 (context philosophy English) To deny the existence or significance of something obviously real or important. 2 To append something to a quotation of itself.
Wikipedia
A quine is a non-empty computer program which takes no input and produces a copy of its own source code as its only output. The standard terms for these programs in the computability theory and computer science literature are "self-replicating programs", "self-reproducing programs", and "self-copying programs".
A quine is a fixed point of an execution environment, when the execution environment is viewed as a function. Quines are possible in any Turing complete programming language, as a direct consequence of Kleene's recursion theorem. For amusement, programmers sometimes attempt to develop the shortest possible quine in any given programming language.
The name "quine" was coined by Douglas Hofstadter, in his popular science book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, in the honor of philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine (1908–2000), who made an extensive study of indirect self-reference, and in particular for the following paradox-producing expression, known as Quine's paradox:
"Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation" yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.
In some languages, particularly scripting languages, an empty source file is a fixed point of the language, being a valid program that produces no output. Such an empty program, submitted as "the world's smallest self reproducing program", once won the "worst abuse of the rules" prize in the International Obfuscated C Code Contest.
Quine is a Manx surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Edgar Quine (born 1934), Manx politician
- John Quine (1857-1940), Manx clergyman, scholar and writer - author of The Captain of the Parish
- Richard Quine (1920–1989), American stage, film, and radio actor and film director
- Robert Quine (1942–2004), American guitarist
- Willard Van Orman Quine (1908–2000), American analytic philosopher and logician
- William Edward Quine (1847–1922), Manx American physician and academic
Quine may refer to:
- Quine (surname), people with the surname Quine
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Willard Van Orman Quine, the philosopher, or things named after him:
- Quine (computing), a program that produces its source code as output
- Quine–McCluskey algorithm, an algorithm used for logic minimization
- Quine's paradox, in logic
Usage examples of "quine".
He did not attend any high day services, although he was a frequent visitor to the temple, playing chess with Father Quine and spending hours debating the nature of the Preservers and the world.
Two hours before sunset, Father Quine, the priest of the temple of Aeolis, came in his orange robes, walking barefoot and bareheaded up the winding road from the city to the peel-house.
I am supposed to be cleaning out the narthex while Father Quine dines with the Aedile and Prefect Corin.
He did not attend any high day services, although he was a frequent visitor to the temple, playing chess with Father Quine and spending hours debating the nature of the Preservers and the world.
She had tied a green head-scarf over her chestnut hair, and she wore a black and white harle quined skiing jacket to keep out the cold.
The overall effect was of a smooth wall or con tainer holding a mass of fog-shrouded, moving se quined material.