One of the languages is Piet. Now that’s insane.
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
#12A work of art :)
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6048761 (177 comments) (2013)
Re: A Ruby program that generates itself through a 128-language quine loop
#13Is there any 2 or 3 language version of this? Like ruby to python to java to ruby?
Re: A Ruby program that generates itself through a 128-language quine loop
#14Many 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?
While this is amazing, I should point out that for most languages he only needs to understand enough syntax to print strings and possibly unquote them. If you actually run this program into the first language, Ruby, the actual code (meant to be a Rust code) is as follows:
fn main(){print!("{}",("object QR extends App{print(\"(display \\\"printf(\\\\\\\"1d;s/.//;s/1/ the sum of a son and0/g;s/0/ twice/g;s/2/You are as bad as/g;s/3/ a son!Speak your mind!/g\\\\\\\\n#The Relay of Quine.\\\\\\\\n#Ajax, a man.\\\\\\\\n#Ford, a man.\\\\\\\\n#Act i: Quine.\\\\\\\\n#Scene i: Relay.\\\\\\\\n#[Enter Ajax and Ford]\\\\\\\\n#Ajax:\\\\\\\\n#\\\\\\\");function[]=f(s);for i=1:2:length(s),printf(\\\\\\\"2%s3\\\\\\\",part(dec2bin(hex2dec(part(s,i:i+1))),$:-1:2)),end;endfunction\\\\nf('[lots of hexdump]')\\\\nf('[lots of hexdump]')[snip]\\\\nprintf(\\\\\\\"\\\\\\\\n#[Exeunt]\\\\\\\");quit\\\")\");}"));}
Re: A Ruby program that generates itself through a 128-language quine loop
#15It’s amazing what people can do with stuff like this. Such a beautiful language (Ruby) made so ugly yet beautiful when viewed from a higher altitude.. there’s a metaphor there somewhere
Re: A Ruby program that generates itself through a 128-language quine loop
#16I like the Radiation-hardened Quine: https://github.com/mame/radiation-hardened-quine
Re: A Ruby program that generates itself through a 128-language quine loop
#17Many 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?
While this is amazing, I should point out that for most languages he only needs to understand enough syntax to print strings and possibly unquote them. If you actually run this program into the first language, Ruby, the actual code (meant to be a Rust code) is as follows: fn main(){print!("{}",("object QR extends App{print(\"(display \\\"printf(\\\\\\\"1d;s/.//;s/1/ the sum of a son and0/g;s/0/ twice/g;s/2/You are as…
In this video (where among the other things they explain huroboro), they show an example of code that prints out exactly the same output (itself) whether it's compiled/executed in c, python or ruby
Re: A Ruby program that generates itself through a 128-language quine loop
#18I never zoom out on GitHub, but this one time it was kind of neat.
Re: A Ruby program that generates itself through a 128-language quine loop
#19Now this is how you market a book. cool.
Re: A Ruby program that generates itself through a 128-language quine loop
#20Disappointed there is no Eiffel