With the sources, and variation in the use of Quine often trivially I wonder if we would be better coining a new term perhaps the "ruston " @jeremyruston
The name “quine” was coined by Douglas Hofstadter, in his popular science book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, in the honor of philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine, who made an extensive study of indirect self-reference
- Which I have somewhere having read it a long time ago.
I also read;
It’s relatively easy to write quines in other languages such as Postscript which readily handle programs as data
From this idea we may extract a definition of the “Ruston” from the general and unique properties of tiddlywiki appropriately generalised.
I am working on the definition of a “Ruston”, which is in fact so broad in its possibilities and extent it may take a little time to do this concisely.