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The source code equivalent of this is a polyglot program: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyglot_(computing) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyglot_(computing)

by schoen 6y ago

The source code equivalent of this is a polyglot program: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyglot_(computing) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyglot_(computing) Apparently people on Stack Exchange have been working together on a single polyglot program for four years and have gotten a single codebase up to validity in nearly 300 languages. https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/102370/add-a-language-to-a-polyglot?answertab=oldest#tab-top https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/102370/add-a-la... Edit: also, Yusuke Endoh is a master at this art form https://github.com/mame/quine-relay https://github.com/mame/quine-relay and has even written a book about it http://uguu.org/words/2015_10_01.html http://uguu.org/words/2015_10_01.html which I would still love to have available in English!

donaldcuckman 6y ago
seems like youre trying to diminish the importance and significance of justines work by brushing it off as a polyglot, which you clearly watched youtube video of this past week . As i have and all i see everyone must also be subjected to via logic of mine
chrisdalke 6y ago
+1 for the mention of Endoh's work -- Yusuke Endoh's YouTube channel with many of his quines is really fantastic: https://www.youtube.com/c/YusukeEndoh/videos https://www.youtube.com/c/YusukeEndoh/videos A quine that prints itself as scrolling text in an AVI file: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMlJy5He-Tk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMlJy5He-Tk A self-similar quine that behaves like a fractal zooming out infinitely: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J7u2G52scc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J7u2G52scc A quine with source code that contains sheet music to a Bach song in comments and plays it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OryXKUgRVOg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OryXKUgRVOg
logicallee 6y ago
>Apparently people on Stack Exchange have been working together on a single polyglot program for four years and have gotten a single codebase up to validity in nearly 300 languages. Wow, what a link. I submitted it just now as a separate HN post using your phrasing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24257630 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24257630
jaclaz 6y ago
Classical examples of chimera/polyglots are: PoC||GTFO International Journal of Proof-of-Concept or ... https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/ https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/ Corkami: https://github.com/corkami https://github.com/corkami

by schoen 6y ago

donaldcuckman 6y ago

seems like youre trying to diminish the importance and significance of justines work by brushing it off as a polyglot, which you clearly watched youtube video of this past week . As i have and all i see everyone must also be subjected to via logic of mine

chrisdalke 6y ago

+1 for the mention of Endoh's work -- Yusuke Endoh's YouTube channel with many of his quines is really fantastic: https://www.youtube.com/c/YusukeEndoh/videos https://www.youtube.com/c/YusukeEndoh/videos A quine that prints itself as scrolling text in an AVI file: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMlJy5He-Tk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMlJy5He-Tk A self-similar quine that behaves like a fractal zooming out infinitely: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J7u2G52scc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J7u2G52scc A quine with source code that contains sheet music to a Bach song in comments and plays it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OryXKUgRVOg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OryXKUgRVOg

logicallee 6y ago

>Apparently people on Stack Exchange have been working together on a single polyglot program for four years and have gotten a single codebase up to validity in nearly 300 languages. Wow, what a link. I submitted it just now as a separate HN post using your phrasing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24257630 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24257630

jaclaz 6y ago

Classical examples of chimera/polyglots are: PoC||GTFO International Journal of Proof-of-Concept or ... https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/ https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/ Corkami: https://github.com/corkami https://github.com/corkami