Quine
The term for a sentence that describes itself. Named after their inventor W. V. Quine, in a programming setting, they are programs that output their own source code.Here are a few pages on Quines:
- David Madore's
- Gary Thompson's
- Ben Olmstead's
- Craig S. Kaplan's
- Note also the quines in Ken Thompson's Turing Award lecture.
This page is linked from: Methods of Reflection