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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: Writing own source disk
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2024 14:47:08 +0100
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Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> writes:

> On Sun, 2 Jun 2024 12:54:17 +0100
> Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Writing a prgram which writes its own source to standard output is a 
>> standard programming problem. It's called a quine.
>
> Is it named after Willard Van Orman Quine?

In honour of rather than after since "after" is usually used for
discoverers.  It was Douglas Hofstadter who coined the term.

-- 
Ben.