Writing a triple polyglot script

Ahaha I love this. Very clever idea too, "Triple-hirable" possibly, but I feel your time is clearly better spent dreaming these nightmare concoctions!

Re: Writing a triple polyglot script

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Post by pjc50 » Thu, Feb 06, 2020, 1:59 PM UTC

There's a great history of polyglots. I saw this one published many years ago in a magazine: https://gist.github.com/erickedji/92398

    CuG #%*   POLYGLOT - a program in eight languages      15 February 1991  *+Ex=

Re: Writing a triple polyglot script

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Post by blunte » Thu, Feb 06, 2020, 2:38 PM UTC

Languages with eval() kind of give you a pass on this challenge.

A more impressive alternative would be writing nested interpreters in multiple languages... Or writing code which runs in one "language" and then self modifies to another language which runs and subsequently self modifies, and so on.

Re: Writing a triple polyglot script

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Post by somesortofsystm » Thu, Feb 06, 2020, 2:43 PM UTC

If you love this, you're going to positively squee at Poc||GTFO, if you haven't read it yet:

https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/

I mean, does HN filter out PoC||GTFO release announcements or something? I seem to remember there being mention that it might've hit the filter list ..

Re: Writing a triple polyglot script

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Post by shoeffner » Thu, Feb 06, 2020, 3:00 PM UTC

blunte wrote: post #6

Languages with eval() kind of give you a pass on this challenge. A more impressive alternative would be writing nested interpreters in multiple languages... Or writing code which runs in one "language" and then self modifies to another language which runs and subsequently self modifies, and so on.