Words to Your Mother: Quine

In computer programming, a quine is a metaprogram that outputs its entire source code. Wikipedia gives several examples of this, including the following JavaScript example:

function a() {
 alert (a + "\na();");
}

a();

Quine is also occasionally used to mean "to deny resolutely the existence or importance of something real or significant".

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