- William Var Orman Quine, a philosopher and the eponym of quine, invented the first quine, an English sentence that referenced itself indirectly. Quine came to refer to any program which displays its own code when it is run. Quininess refers to this property specifically by adding the noun-forming suffix -iness.
quininess
noun; derivation
The property of being a quine - that is, a program that outputs itself when run
Etymology : quine, after William Var Orman Quine, plus the affix -iness
Source : “The compressed file would not be, but it would not change the quininess of the decompressed version” - group chat, 6/24/2020
Last modified: 26 November 2020