What's the term for a program or system that is used to maintain itself?

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Published on 2010-05-03T19:00:47Z Indexed on 2010/05/03 19:08 UTC
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And I don't mean skynet. I'm thinking of say a compiler application that is used to compile itself, a VCS that tracks its own source code etc.

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