quine-relay VS ioccc-obfuscated-c-contest

If there were more languages, then it'd be `console.log("System.out.println({python_source})")`, etc. The problem then becomes quoting and escaping inner quotes. I managed to avoid the problem by using both single and double quotes, and relying on Python's `repr` also giving valid JS strings, but if I had to add one more language I'd have problems.

I still think the Quine Relay is a tour de force, but for different reasons. It's not 128 quines in different languages, but an incredibly robust system for quoting and escaping strings in 128 different languages.

[1] https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/blob/master/src/code-gen...

One of the most impressive works I've seen: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay

"Quine" is a type of program, when executed, will output itself (it's actually it's source code). It's very hard to write one. And this guy wrote a loop quine. It supposed to work like this: * A program in language A output a program in language B * The program in language B output a program in language C * The program in language C output the same program in language A which we started with

Or a Quine relay.

Why use a couple of languages, when you can use 128 of them simultaneously? https://github.com/mame/quine-relay

Quine relay [1] is to this day the most "I will never understand this" brainfuck project I have ever seen.

[1] https://github.com/mame/quine-relay

Go look at a programming quine and tell me it isn't art.

A semi-automated system that compares old unsafe code to new unsafe code would likely be really helpful here - say, a LLM prompted to investigate whether the new unsafe blocks are a significant difference in scope and documented intent from the old unsafe blocks. Unless the winners of https://www.ioccc.org/ are among your attackers, it's a pretty solid line of defense.

For that you can go savor the archives of IOCCC : https://www.ioccc.org/

>> Perl can also be hilariously unreadable: https://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol4_3/tpj0403-0017.html

Most programming languages can be obfuscated. That does not mean people write code in those programming languages like that:

C: https://www.ioccc.org/

Javascript: view-source:https://www.google.com/

The truth is that insulting Perl is considered stylish by some, so many people do despite knowing little to nothing about Perl and having never used it.

If you want the most complex, then probably here https://www.ioccc.org/

Since someone already linked Enterprise FizzBuzz, I'll link The Obfuscated C Contest as a possible source of inspiration.

Or this one [3] that calculates pi by estimating its own surface area.

Or this one [4]. It's a lovers quarrel, written simultaneously in C and English. It's incredible, seriously, read it.

[0]: https://www.ioccc.org/

I wonder what sort of "English" it spits out when fed obfuscated C code

OP is going to rage quit when he sees https://www.ioccc.org/

I mean, its no https://www.ioccc.org/ entry

The International Obfuscated C Code Contest for all you brain damage needs.