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EDIT: I realize that the subject of this thread is not a polygot, but I'm leaving this comment up in case it interests someone. :/ If anyone's interested in wh
by notadog 8y ago
EDIT: I realize that the subject of this thread is not a polygot, but I'm leaving this comment up in case it interests someone. :/
If anyone's interested in what these are called, they are called polygots.
> In computing, a polyglot is a computer program or script written in a valid form of multiple programming languages, which performs the same operations or output independent of the programming language used to compile or interpret it.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyglot_(computing) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyglot_(computing)
- colejohnson66 8y agoI wouldn’t call it a polyglot as that has to deal with computer programs, no?
- Kerrick 8y agoIt also doesn't have the same operations/output since one is a squirrel photo and the other is a webpage with English text.
- 13of40 8y agoI always thought it was called a chimera.
- Drup 8y agoSo, if I remember correctly Ange Albertini's nomenclature, chimeras are particular types of polyglots where a single data is disguised as different file formats. For example, consider a file that is both a JPEG of a picture and a PDF which contains the same picture, and the data of the picture is present only once in the file.