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It's fucking genius
They were too preoccupied with whether they could instead of asking whether they should.
I wonder if you could write a valid program in two different languages using this technique.
You can do it with any language where whitespace doesn't matter and Whitespace
That's what I use to show people the exact message I sent before. It gets around any app that doesn't let you send blank messages. I have it saved on my clipboard for this
Absolutely, that's a polyglot file
Not quite this exact case but I love showing people https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
It has 128 languages, it starts with ruby which prints out its own source code in Scala, then the Scala program executes to generate the next source code, repeat for 128 languages and eventually returns to the original ruby code.
For extra fun, look at the source code on a large monitor.
amazing! it's great to see that is still being maintained after so many years.