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Indeed. That's a transmutation circle of awesome.
I think he's referring to the relative uselessness of the code. Yes it would have taken a lot of time, talent and intellect to produce but from what I understand is of relatively little use? Can someone correct me if I'm wrong?
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If I make a ranked list of all the ways that people spend their time, I cannot imagine a sensible scoring algorithm that puts making a quine relay lower in value than posting an internet comment bitching about somebody making a quine relay.
bitching about someone making a quine relay takes like 10 seconds, though.
A truly worthwhile bitching would take at least an hour.
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Indeed, the Japanese ruby community has quite a few interesting characters like this.. In fact, someone even wrote a book about using ruby as a base for creating esoteric languages! http://www.amazon.co.jp/Ruby%E3%81%A7%E4%BD%9C%E3%82%8B%E5%A...
I really wish there was a translation of this.
I feel awful for pointing this out, but the author spelled Copyright incorrectly in the last line. Fortunately, he can correct it without blowing out his Ascii art by deleting the extra space between '##' and 'Quine'. I'd issue a pull request myself, but it'd be like me putting soy sauce on a piece of Jiro Ono's sushi. I am completely unworthy.
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a) The author is Jewish b) It's semantically relevant (Probably the latter. Same goes for the typo in the copyright notice in the end.)
He's Japanese, and one of the authors of the Ruby programming language
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I'm sorry, how is that sad?
possibly that someone clearly very smart wasted his/her intellect doing this, rather than advancing the species by curing obesity, heart disease and cancer?
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Perhaps my favorite paragraph on all of wikipedia: INTERCAL has many other features designed to make it even more aesthetically unpleasing to the programmer: it uses statements such as "READ OUT", "IGNORE", "FORGET", and modifiers such as "PLEASE". This last keyword provides two reasons for the program's rejection by the compiler: if "PLEASE" does not appear often enough, the program is considered insufficiently poli…
COME FROM also allows elegant aspect-oriented programming :)
I used to make fun of Intercal, until I had to do with a Simulink model that made use of FROM blocks.
It's just as retarded as you'd expect. It's as if someone intentionally decided to take a step back from structured programming, and then some more steps back.
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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.
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He's Japanese, and one of the authors of the Ruby programming language
Being Japanese doesn't actually preclude you from being Jewish. It makes it highly unlikely... but not impossible.
In case someone is able to run this beast, I'd appreciate an upload of the intermediate source files.
Working on it now. I started a repo where I document the things I had to do to get it to work, i.e. where I had to do something other than what was in Mame's README: https://github.com/SilasX/QuineRelayFiles The intermediate source files I've been able to generate so far are in /output_files: https://github.com/SilasX/QuineRelayFiles/tree/master/output... Edit: Direct link to the go file: https://github.com/SilasX/Qu…
https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/commit/5d8c1e61a5012b9b5...
(Replying to self because I can't further edit that comment.)