Oh. My. God.
Quine Relay
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#13Fascinating. Even the README generator is on another level of meta: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/blob/master/src/README.m...
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#14Anyone care to explain how this actually works?
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#15Anyone care to explain how this actually works?
Per the explanation linked in the discussion [1], the initial file generates code in another language. That code, when executed, generates code in yet another language. The process continues until the output is the code of the original file.
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#16Why's there a Star of David in the middle?
It's actually a transmutation circle symbol from the manga/anime Fullmetal Alchemist
Actually, the Ouroboros Tattoo on the villians Lust / Gluttony / Greed / etc. etc. from Full Metal Alchemist, of whom were created using the human transmutation circle (getting into the details of which would be spoilers...).
Ex: Wrath's tattoo is in his eye:
http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130406001619/fma/ima...
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#17Anyone care to explain how this actually works?
Per the explanation linked in the discussion [1], the initial file generates code in another language. That code, when executed, generates code in yet another language. The process continues until the output is the code of the original file. [1] https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
What is unclear to me is how the final program manages to represent the entire code (thus the entire language loop). Wouldn't doing that make the source code recursive and infinite? Or am I missing something important?
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#18This should be in MOMA.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Per the explanation linked in the discussion [1], the initial file generates code in another language. That code, when executed, generates code in yet another language. The process continues until the output is the code of the original file. [1] https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
What is unclear to me is how the final program manages to represent the entire code (thus the entire language loop). Wouldn't doing that make the source code recursive and infinite? Or am I missing something important?
No more recursive or infinite than any other self-replicator that has intermediate "bodies".
EDIT: To clarify, there's actually a wrapper script on top of it all that tells the first script to execute, storing its output in file 2, then execute file 2 with language 2, then execute file 3 with language 3, and so on.