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An uroboros program with 100+ programming languages

99 mentions on Hacker News by 93 people: 31 stories, 68 comments · first 2013-07-15 · latest 2026-08-07

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  1. same author wrote a 50 language quine: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
    comment by yincrash · 2014-02-22 · in Radiation-hardened quine
  2. A quine perhaps? (Perhaps Endoh's crazy quine? https://github.com/mame/quine-relay )
    comment by chewxy · 2013-12-03 · in The Language-Language Matrix
  3. Posted here before I'm sure, but no discussion of this topic is complete without a link to https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
    comment by jgeorge · 2013-11-06 · in The Quine Page (self-reproducing code)
  4. I love his sense of humor too: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/issues/10
    comment by minikomi · 2013-07-17 · in Quine Relay
  5. Welcome to social coding: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/issues
    comment by isomorph · 2013-07-16 · in Quine Relay
  6. Fixed: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/commit/b9322a12e9598911f... The hashes are automatically generated, it turns out.
    comment by chalst · 2013-07-16 · in Quine Relay
  7. …and then reading about what it does afterwards was the idea. Amazing piece of work by @hirekoke. https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/blob/master/QR.rb
    comment by codeulike · 2013-07-16 · in Quine Relay
  8. Woot! Pascal issue fixed in a later commit: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/commit/5d8c1e61a5012b9b5... (Replying to self because I can't further edit that comment.)
    comment by SilasX · 2013-07-16 · in Quine Relay
  9. …to look like the Star of David surrounded by the dragon-eel thing, Obfuscated-C-contest style: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/blob/master/QR.rb
    comment by barbs · 2013-07-16 · in Quine Relay
  10. …of super impressive stuff here, but don't be intimidated thinking he wrote that monster by hand! https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/blob/master/src/code-gen...
    comment by jcromartie · 2013-07-16 · in Quine Relay
  11. The miracle happens here: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/blob/master/src/code-gen... Also the SVG to ASCII mapping is cool!
    comment by NanoWar · 2013-07-16 · in Quine Relay
  12. …which can be fixed either with a compiler switch or by editing the source earlier in the relay. https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/issues/3
    comment by SilasX · 2013-07-16 · in Quine Relay
  13. …do). Hopefully you can see now how it's not so impossible (but still ridiculously awesome!) [1] https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/blob/master/QR.rb
    comment by shawnz · 2013-07-15 · in Quine Relay
  14. https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/blob/master/src/code-gen... This is a neat project but somehow the implementation is a lot less mind bending than the definition. Which is rather the opposite of what I experienced when I first heard of…
    comment by recuter · 2013-07-15 · in Quine Relay
  15. And: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/blob/master/QR.rb This project isn't code, it's art. Edit: Heh, Brainfuck, Whitespace, Logo... and notice they're all in alphabetical order?
    comment by polemic · 2013-07-15 · in Quine Relay
  16. …yet another language. The process continues until the output is the code of the original file. [1] https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
    comment by SilasX · 2013-07-15 · in Quine Relay
  17. Fascinating. Even the README generator is on another level of meta: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/blob/master/src/README.m...
    comment by epidemian · 2013-07-15 · in Quine Relay
  18. …author for taking dedication to a whole new level. Link to a description of what this actually is: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
    comment by RyanZAG · 2013-07-15 · in Quine Relay