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 quine Computer Encyclopedia Enterprise Resource Directory Complete Guide to Internet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Devising the shortest possible quine in some given programming language is a common hackish amusement.
In fact any quine can be considered as a {fixed point} of the language's evaluation mechanism.
Here is a classic {C} quine for {ASCII} machines: 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 interior line break.
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 W. V. Quine Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com
Most of Quine's early publications were in formal logic.
Quine's now-legendary example is of the word "gavagai" uttered by a native in the presence of a rabbit.
As to his personal beliefs, Quine clarifies at the end of "Two Dogmas of Empiricism": "As an empiricist I continue to think of the conceptual scheme of science as a tool, ultimately, for predicting future experience in the light of past experience.
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 Quine Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In the Scots language, a quean or quine is a girl or young woman.
In computing, A quine is a program that produces its complete source code as its only output.
Quine, who made an extensive study of indirect self-reference: he coined, among others, the paradox-producing expression, "yields falsehood when appended to its own quotation."
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