OT: Crazy Programming

Brian McErlean b_mcerlean at yahoo.com
Tue May 14 10:27:27 EDT 2002


mlh at vier.idi.ntnu.no (Magnus Lie Hetland) wrote in message news:<slrnae1oio.d5b.mlh at vier.idi.ntnu.no>...
> In article <mailman.1021198403.21335.python-list at python.org>, Oleg
> Broytmann wrote:
> >Hello. Little amusing offtopic. ;)
> >
> >   There is a nice idead pointed to by /. - a file with a program(s) that
> >solves a Perl Golf job. The amusing part is that the file contains the
> >program in 4 different languges!
> [snip]
> 
> Hm. I remember seing a program that could be run in 6 different
> languages once (including PostScript)... I don't remember where I saw
> it, though -- it was on some obscure ftp server somewhere. (Or perhaps
> it was even gopher -- don't remember.)

Probably this one : http://www.nyx.net/~gthompso/poly/polyglot.txt

Also, some other examples of polyglots are here:
  http://www.nyx.net/~gthompso/poly/polyglot.htm

Brian.



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