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quine
UK //kwaɪn//US //kwaɪn//
词源
Named after philosopher and logician Willard Van Orman Quine, who studied self-reference and related paradoxes.
noun
❶ 指一种特殊的计算机程序，其功能是输出自身的完整源代码。这是计算机科学中自指现象的一个经典例子。
“A quine is a program that prints its own source code.”
（Quine 是一种能打印自身源代码的程序。）
“Writing a quine is a common challenge for programmers.”
（编写 quine 是程序员常见的挑战。）
同义词:self-replicating program, self-referential code, auto-replicating code
常见短语
quine program — 指能够输出自身源代码的程序，常用于计算机科学教学和研究中。
“The professor asked us to write a quine program as homework.”
（教授让我们写一个 quine 程序作为作业。）