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Re: Quine Relay

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Post by SilasX »

vedant wrote: post #78
quchen wrote: post #3

In case someone is able to run this beast, I'd appreciate an upload of the intermediate source files.

I successfully compiled every intermediary, and posted all of the code in a gzipped tarball here: http://goo.gl/EBZFV . I also made an EC2 AMI, ID ami-744b351d, for anyone who would like to try this themselves. I started a tiny stub post here, where I'd like to dig into the code over the next couple of days: http://vedantmisra.com/2013/07/yusuke-endohs-amazing-quine-r... I posted about it earlier in a reply here to O…

Great work! I wasn't able to get past the QR.pas file. On both yours and mine I get the error:

    QR.pas(1,32) Error: Constant strings can't be longer than 255 chars

Re: Quine Relay

#92

Post by jevinskie »

sker wrote: post #69
quchen wrote: post #3

In case someone is able to run this beast, I'd appreciate an upload of the intermediate source files.

I made it to the first Fortran, 24 out of 50: gfortran -o QR QR.f && ./QR > QR.f90 gfortran: internal compiler error: Killed (program f951) Giving up now.

Aren't ICE errors fun?! You're lucky if you get a pass name and stack trace. Sheesh!

Re: Quine Relay

#93

Post by SilasX »

breadbox wrote: post #50
hnriot wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

possibly that someone clearly very smart wasted his/her intellect doing this, rather than advancing the species by curing obesity, heart disease and cancer?

I also know plenty of people who waste their intellect painting canvases, when they could be advancing the species by doing something practical. Shall we shed a tear for their wasted efforts as well? But of course not. Art is its own justification. And this program, my friends? This is art .

Still, I reserve the right to be a lot more impressed with this than a painting of a bunch of cans of Campbell's soup.

Re: Quine Relay

#94

Post by Falling3 »

gambler wrote: post #55
breadbox wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I also know plenty of people who waste their intellect painting canvases, when they could be advancing the species by doing something practical. Shall we shed a tear for their wasted efforts as well? But of course not. Art is its own justification. And this program, my friends? This is art .

Art that only exists for the sake of existing, without intent to express, explore, or otherwise stimulate human mind - art of that sort is garbage. There are plenty of people who vehemently defend that garbage, but it doesn't make it any less wasteful use of human time and attention. Personally, I will never respect it simply because there was a lot of effort involved.

I'm am tired of these elitist views of art. You sir, know nothing of art.

Re: Quine Relay

#95

Post by lisper »

jcromartie wrote: post #85

The code that generates the quine is included. There's still lots of super impressive stuff here, but don't be intimidated thinking he wrote that monster by hand! https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/blob/master/src/code-gen...

LOL! The codegen for Java is so much longer than any of the others!

Re: Quine Relay

#98

Post by pizza »

RyanZAG wrote: post #2

That is both the most incredible thing I've ever seen, yet also by far the saddest thing I've ever seen. Props to the author for taking dedication to a whole new level. Link to a description of what this actually is: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay

art

Re: Quine Relay

#99

Post by tomasien »

This is amazing. Think the concept can be taken to another level in some way? Begin a universal translator of some small level?

Re: Quine Relay

#100

Post by martin_ »

The arrangement of the languages is alphabetical, did this complicate things at all? Would it have been simpler in a different order (though less elegant)?
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