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    [from the name of the logician Willard V. Quine, via Douglas Hofstadter] n. A program which generates a copy of its source text as... VIEW ENTIRE DEFINITION


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    hack up

    vt. To hack, but generally implies that the result is a hack in sense 1 (a quick hack). Contrast this with hack on. To `hack up on' implies a quick-and-dirty modification to an existing system. Contrast hacked up; compare kluge up, monkey up, cruft together.