Does someone know how this works? He wrote a book about it, but it's Japanese which I cannot read
Quine Relay
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Re: Quine Relay
#12Does the first language (in this case Ruby) need to be script language and/or a way to read itself?
I have no idea how this is implemented, but for regular quines (i.e. just a program that outputs its own source code) reading the source file is obviously not allowed. Plus there's isn't really a "first language" since the whole thing is a loop anyway.
Re: Quine Relay
#13Does someone know how this works? He wrote a book about it, but it's Japanese which I cannot read
Not applicable specifically to Quine Relay, but the author gave a few interesting talks in English over the years at RubyConf where he discusses some of the obfuscated code techniques he uses:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K7EmeptEHo
Re: Quine Relay
#14Note this is written by Yusuke Endoh, one of the top obfuscated-code competition winners in the world. Given that Christmas is coming up, and it never seems to get traction here on HN, I'll take the opportunity to link to another of his quines here. It's one of my favourite pieces of code ever, a christmas-themed animation which doubles as a quine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0eaf9iLKxg Edit: I have to re-iterat…
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