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HN comment orderI know we shouldn't care about the source, crazy-insane as he obviously is, but FWIW, the author is Yusuke Endoh, one of the Ruby core members. RubySource had an interview with him here: http://rubysource.com/meet-fifteen-ruby-core-committers/ He lists his "hobby in programming" as: "writing a Quine and enjoying esoteric programming."
Note this is written by Yusuke Endoh, one of the top obfuscated-code competition winners in the world. Given that Christmas is coming up, and it never seems to get traction here on HN, I'll take the opportunity to link to another of his quines here. It's one of my favourite pieces of code ever, a christmas-themed animation which doubles as a quine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0eaf9iLKxg Edit: I have to re-iterate, he is truly a genius. It's worth spending time going through his…
This quine is discussed (among other topics) in The Art of Code[0], one of the most captivating tech talks I've ever seen. [0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6avJHaC3C2U
Old thread from 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6048761
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