{"id":23090,"date":"2014-12-04T12:01:02","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T10:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=23090"},"modified":"2014-12-04T12:04:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T10:04:00","slug":"quine-relay-an-uroboros-program-with-80-programming-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2014\/12\/04\/quine-relay-an-uroboros-program-with-80-programming-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"quine-relay – an uroboros program with 80+ programming languages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

quine-relay<\/a> – an uroboros program with 80+ programming languages.<\/p>\n

\"quine<\/a><\/p>\n

If you didn’t get it, here’s a better description:<\/p>\n

This is a Ruby program that generates Scala program that generates Scheme program that generates …(through 80 languages in total)… REXX program that generates the original Ruby code again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Insanity at\u00a0its best!<\/p>\n

P.S.: Quine (computing)<\/a> Wikipedia page comes handy:<\/p>\n

A quine<\/b> is a non-empty computer program which takes no input and produces a copy of its own source code as its only output. The standard terms for these programs in the computability theory and computer science literature are “self-replicating programs”, “self-reproducing programs”, and “self-copying programs”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

quine-relay – an uroboros program with 80+ programming languages. If you didn’t get it, here’s a better description: This is a Ruby program that generates Scala program that generates Scheme program that generates …(through 80 languages in total)… REXX program that generates the original Ruby code again. Insanity at\u00a0its best! P.S.: Quine (computing) Wikipedia page … Continue reading quine-relay – an uroboros program with 80+ programming languages<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"quine-relay - an uroboros program with 80+ #programming languages","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,18,62],"tags":[1228,2418,1330],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-23090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-programming","category-technology","tag-geek-culture","tag-humor","tag-web-development"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24905,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2015\/10\/29\/27-languages-to-improve-your-python\/","url_meta":{"origin":23090,"position":0},"title":"27 languages to improve your Python","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"October 29, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Nick Coghlan writes: One of the things we do as part of the Python core development process is to look at features we appreciate having available in other languages we have experience with, and see whether or not there is a way to adapt them to be useful in making\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":15107,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/12\/on-teaching-programming-languages\/","url_meta":{"origin":23090,"position":1},"title":"On teaching programming languages","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"June 12, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via this tweet I came across this insightful comment over at Slashdot. \u00a0Quoting in its\u00a0entirety: A bit off topic, but you triggered something I've been thinking about for a couple of years. 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