A Ruby program that generates itself through a 128-language quine loop
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Re: A Ruby program that generates itself through a 128-language quine loop
#2This is insane.. I remember when it was only 50 and I was blown away.
Re: A Ruby program that generates itself through a 128-language quine loop
#3How exactly does this work? Does one language invoke another and another in a chain, or ruby at the top calling A, then B, then C..
And is that an Ouroboros snake, or something else
Re: A Ruby program that generates itself through a 128-language quine loop
#4How exactly does this work? Does one language invoke another and another in a chain, or ruby at the top calling A, then B, then C.. And is that an Ouroboros snake, or something else
The top of the repo explains it: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
Re: A Ruby program that generates itself through a 128-language quine loop
#5This was written by Yusuke Endoh, who also wrote this submission to the IOCCC that I remember being arguably more astonished when I saw it for the first time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMYfkOtYYlg (ASCII fluid dynamics).
Re: A Ruby program that generates itself through a 128-language quine loop
#6I am amazed. I have no idea how the hell could the author even do that.
Apparently, they have a book called "The world of obfuscated, esoteric, artistic programming", but it seems to be written in Japanese. I hope it will be translated to English someday, so I may learn this dark sorcery.
Re: A Ruby program that generates itself through a 128-language quine loop
#7Some background: https://esoteric.codes/blog/the-128-language-quine-relay
Note that the author made the challenge even harder by sorting the languages in alphabetical order:
> According to Endoh, the most challenging transitions were Befunge to BLC8 to brainfuck, as all three are esoteric. It runs through languages strictly in alphabetical order, so there was no opportunity to group easier-to-work-with languages together.
Re: A Ruby program that generates itself through a 128-language quine loop
#8Of course author is from Japan, of course.
Re: A Ruby program that generates itself through a 128-language quine loop
#9Many programmers complain that they can't complete a hello world example in one or more of the languages featured here because they're too difficult.
This guy demonstrated enough understanding of 128 of them to make this work.
Is the difference in competence really so big between us?
Re: A Ruby program that generates itself through a 128-language quine loop
#10Many programmers complain that they can't complete a hello world example in one or more of the languages featured here because they're too difficult. This guy demonstrated enough understanding of 128 of them to make this work. Is the difference in competence really so big between us?
Yes.
I see this every single day.
And it becomes more and more obvious the better you become.