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That's a pretty caustic take on an inherently subjective matter: the appreciation of beauty. Also, in what way is this exercise not exploratory?
What does it explore?
(If you are looking for other people to explain to you how to appreciate art, you are going to have a bad time.)
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
This is a relatively common form of humor. A great achievement followed by a realization of the cost of that achievement.
"I just won my 1000th game of ! ...I should go outside."
I know we shouldn't care about the source, crazy-insane as he obviously is, but FWIW, the author is Yusuke Endoh, one of the Ruby core members. RubySource had an interview with him here: http://rubysource.com/meet-fifteen-ruby-core-committers/ He lists his "hobby in programming" as: "writing a Quine and enjoying esoteric programming."
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.
https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/commit/b9322a12e9598911f...
The hashes are automatically generated, it turns out.
If computer languages were evolving organisms, may this be a metaphor how genetic/chromosome encoding reshuffles itself, and this approximates some common minimalist packaging of the DNA among all these fifty(++?) programming languages? Can we consider this Quine Relay as a `prequel' ancestral "Hello Dad" gene, and also, how its wonderful aesthetic creativity, familiar layperson recognizable and understandable information and charming symbols at myriad representation levels, is enhancing its survival as a persistent executable(living?) `gene-meme'? Eg, is anyone else posting some of this on Facebook?
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You have no idea how long it took to write this program. I bet it's less than the amount of time a typical baseball fan spends watching games over the course of a season. P.S. Knitting a sweater takes forever too. Especially if it has buttons.
Man, fuck buttons.