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Re: αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε

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The source code equivalent of this is a polyglot program:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyglot_(computing)

Apparently people on Stack Exchange have been working together on a single polyglot program for four years and have gotten a single codebase up to validity in nearly 300 languages.

https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/102370/add-a-la...

Edit: also, Yusuke Endoh is a master at this art form

https://github.com/mame/quine-relay

and has even written a book about it

http://uguu.org/words/2015_10_01.html

which I would still love to have available in English!

Re: αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε

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This is incredible and also very frightening. Has anyone tried to distribute one of these binaries in a real context?

I think the closest to that would be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shar and I've seen ones that were both valid shell scripts and Windows batch files. Of course, the actual polyglot part is tiny and serves only to direct execution to continue with the appropriate platform-specific binary.

Re: αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε

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post #2

The source code equivalent of this is a polyglot program: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyglot_(computing) Apparently people on Stack Exchange have been working together on a single polyglot program for four years and have gotten a single codebase up to validity in nearly 300 languages. https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/102370/add-a-la... Edit: also, Yusuke Endoh is a master at this art form https://gith…

seems like youre trying to diminish the importance and significance of justines work by brushing it off as a polyglot, which you clearly watched youtube video of this past week . As i have and all i see everyone must also be subjected to via logic of mine

Re: αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε

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post #2

The source code equivalent of this is a polyglot program: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyglot_(computing) Apparently people on Stack Exchange have been working together on a single polyglot program for four years and have gotten a single codebase up to validity in nearly 300 languages. https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/102370/add-a-la... Edit: also, Yusuke Endoh is a master at this art form https://gith…

+1 for the mention of Endoh's work -- Yusuke Endoh's YouTube channel with many of his quines is really fantastic: https://www.youtube.com/c/YusukeEndoh/videos

A quine that prints itself as scrolling text in an AVI file: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMlJy5He-Tk

A self-similar quine that behaves like a fractal zooming out infinitely: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J7u2G52scc

A quine with source code that contains sheet music to a Bach song in comments and plays it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OryXKUgRVOg

Re: αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε

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Why does the title font look pseudo Greek?

Because that's the name of the post/"format"...

> I started a project which called Cosmopolitan which implements the αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε format. I chose the name because I like the idea of having the freedom to write software without restrictions that transcends traditional boundaries.

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