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To deny the existence or significance of something obviously real or important
A program that produces its own source code as output
American analytic philosopher and logician whose major writings, including Word and Object (1960), concern issues of language and meaning
United States philosopher and logician who championed an empirical view of knowledge that depended on language (1908-2001)
(rhymes with twine): In the Northeast a quine is a young unmarried woman or girl He had mairrit on a quine fae Torry
[from the name of the logician Willard V Quine, via Douglas Hofstadter] n A program which generates a copy of its source text as its complete output Devising the shortest possible quine in some given programming language is a common hackish amusement Here is one classic quine: ((lambda (x) (list x (list (quote quote) x))) (quote (lambda (x) (list x (list (quote quote) x))))) This one works in LISP or Scheme It's relatively easy to write quines in other languages such as Postscript which readily handle programs as data; much harder (and thus more challenging!) in languages like C which do not Here is a classic C quine: char*f="char*f=%c%s%c;main(){printf(f,34,f,34,10);}%c"; main(){printf(f,34,f,34,10);} For excruciatingly exact quinishness, remove the line break after the second semicolon Some infamous {Obfuscated C Contest} entries have been quines that reproduced in exotic ways
/kwi: n/ n [from the name of the logician Willard van Orman Quine, via Douglas Hofstadter] A program that generates a copy of its own source text as its complete output Devising the shortest possible quine in some given programming language is a common hackish amusement (We ignore some variants of BASIC in which a program consisting of a single empty string literal reproduces itself trivially ) Here is one classic quine: ((lambda (x) (list x (list (quote quote) x))) (quote (lambda (x) (list x (list (quote quote) x)))))
the verb "to quine" was coined by the tortoise in Douglas Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach [Hofstadter80] as the name of a process devised by W V Quine which is helpful in explaining Gödel's proof of the incompleteness of arithmetic [Gödel31] To quine a phrase is to form a larger phrase or sentence (or nonesense) by writing the phrase first in quotation marks, and then once more without the quotation marks In brief, to precede the phrase by its quotation
a girl, young woman
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