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Quadrilingual Crazy Programming

Posted by timothy on from the esperonto-has-nothing-on-this dept.

mtve writes: "Have you ever seen source code that is valid on four languages: Perl, C, Befunge, and BrainF*ck? During last Perlgolf season famous Perl hacker Jérôme Quelin submit such inconceivable masterpiece and now he published expanded explanation of his solution. Caution: that text can hurt your mental health. Play Perlgolf!"

2 of 194 comments (clear)

  1. Re:4 Languages? Whoopty doo. by rufusdufus · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Netscape 4 rules! I am writing cross-browser dhtml, and ns 4 has one thing going it for it: it is fast! IE in any version has fewer bugs, and is fast enough. But NS 6.2 is THE WORST. It has so many bugs coding for it is like walking through a mine-field. And, to top that off, its 10 times slower at many DHTML tasks than version 4 was.

  2. Esperanto... by xRizen · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ... is the name of the language, and I fail to see what it has to do with this article.