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Uroboros Programming With 11 Programming Languages

50 points by dfreidin 17y ago

j_baker 17y ago
Someone has way too much time on their hands.
- wheaties 17y ago
  I'd like to have that much time on my hands too.
timf 17y ago
I was not all that impressed until I saw the size of the original source code, dang.
benofsky 17y ago
That is pretty cool but really, could whoever wrote that not have spent however long that took (which I'm guessing is quite long) doing something a lot more worthwhile.
- godDLL 17y ago
  That's so cold. And un-inquisitive. That's like saying to new parents - "Wow, this kid you have for yourself, that's pretty cool; but really - could you not have wasted your time with that and build a business instead?"
- jmatt 17y ago
  doing something a lot more worthwhile. This is narrow minded. The same thing could be said about most any of the great thinkers of history... specifically those in Mathematics since it's so abstract. Arguably programming like this is closer to Math than hacking industry software. There are of course a handful of exceptions like Benjamin Franklin who tended to be pragmatic. And there is nothing wrong about only being productive in a way that is economically quantitative. But I think there should be room for both.
  - benofsky 17y ago
    I think you are right and wish I could take back what I said now. :-)
smithjchris 17y ago
Clever stuff - it's hard enough to get one quine working!
kentosi 17y ago
What fascinated about this article is that there's a whole other world out there of geeks/programmers/hackers beyond our English speaking world doing their own things and sharing their own ideas.
- mahmud 17y ago
  The reddit crowd shares you fascination and expresses itself eloquently: http://d.hatena.ne.jp/ku-ma-me/20090916/p1#c1254244804 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/ku-ma-me/20090916/p1#c1254244804
mitko 17y ago
For a Theory of Computation class I had as a part of the homework to write a program that writes itself in one programming language. It is amazing that such programs exists that can switch languages and can go through several methamorphoses

50 points by dfreidin 17y ago

j_baker 17y ago

Someone has way too much time on their hands.

wheaties 17y ago
I'd like to have that much time on my hands too.

timf 17y ago

I was not all that impressed until I saw the size of the original source code, dang.

benofsky 17y ago

That is pretty cool but really, could whoever wrote that not have spent however long that took (which I'm guessing is quite long) doing something a lot more worthwhile.

godDLL 17y ago
That's so cold. And un-inquisitive. That's like saying to new parents - "Wow, this kid you have for yourself, that's pretty cool; but really - could you not have wasted your time with that and build a business instead?"
jmatt 17y ago
doing something a lot more worthwhile. This is narrow minded. The same thing could be said about most any of the great thinkers of history... specifically those in Mathematics since it's so abstract. Arguably programming like this is closer to Math than hacking industry software. There are of course a handful of exceptions like Benjamin Franklin who tended to be pragmatic. And there is nothing wrong about only being productive in a way that is economically quantitative. But I think there should be room for both.
- benofsky 17y ago
  I think you are right and wish I could take back what I said now. :-)

smithjchris 17y ago

Clever stuff - it's hard enough to get one quine working!

kentosi 17y ago

What fascinated about this article is that there's a whole other world out there of geeks/programmers/hackers beyond our English speaking world doing their own things and sharing their own ideas.

mahmud 17y ago
The reddit crowd shares you fascination and expresses itself eloquently: http://d.hatena.ne.jp/ku-ma-me/20090916/p1#c1254244804 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/ku-ma-me/20090916/p1#c1254244804

mitko 17y ago

For a Theory of Computation class I had as a part of the homework to write a program that writes itself in one programming language. It is amazing that such programs exists that can switch languages and can go through several methamorphoses