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A comment on Ask HN: What piece of code/codebase blew your mind when you saw it?.

Re:Ask HN: What piece of code/codebase blew your mind when y... by tfehring on Monday October 31, 2022 @07:03PM (#33414576)
Quine Relay, "a Ruby program that generates Rust program that generates Scala program that generates ...(through 128 languages in total)... REXX program that generates the original Ruby code again."

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

(HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6048761)

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Re:Ask HN: What piece of code/codebase blew your mind when y... by vsundar on Monday October 31, 2022 @07:36PM (#33414920)
This is just unbelievable. wow.
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Re:Ask HN: What piece of code/codebase blew your mind when y... by pc2g4d on Monday October 31, 2022 @07:27PM (#33414827)
What a strange loop!
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Re:Ask HN: What piece of code/codebase blew your mind when y... by dsugarman on Monday October 31, 2022 @07:53PM (#33415081)
They were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.
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Re:Ask HN: What piece of code/codebase blew your mind when y... by jstx1 on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @05:56AM (#33419033)
How does one come up with this? Like where do you start?
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Re:Ask HN: What piece of code/codebase blew your mind when y... by aasasd on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @07:28AM (#33419750)
Presumably with a version using two languages.
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