Posted by surprisetalk 4 days ago
Another awe-inspiring quine of his, from about a decade ago, is the 128-language ouroboros quine:
https://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet/samples.html
The last one is astonishing: "Okay, this one is really wild. Piet J. (yes, that's his real name) was browsing art in a small gallery and saw a work which reminded him of a Piet program. He spoke to the artist, who claimed to know nothing about the language. Piet took a photo of the artwork (left), converted it into a clean image file using close colours from the Piet palette (right), and tried running it.
It ran!..."
You may view the simulated output: https://vga-playground.com/?repo=https://github.com/jar/ttsk...
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[0] : Conformal Mapping by Computationally Efficient Methods : https://cdn.aaai.org/ojs/7676/7676-13-11206-1-2-20201228.pdf
[1] : dictionary of conformal mapping : https://web.archive.org/web/20130407075256/http://math.fulle...
"considered harmful" [gotos/globals/etc] : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful
"A case against the GO TO statement" : https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD02xx/EWD215...