Seeking to Understand

In the last 10 days I’ve received not one, but two different Whirl submissions! Amazing! It has been over a year since the last - not sure what happened. Perhaps some cosmic events conspired in such a way as to lead to a number of developers around the world becoming spontaneously insane. I can’t really think of anything else, really…

Anyway, the first submission a few days ago was from someone going by the name of “Keymaker.” His/her submission was a stunning 114,030 instruction Whirl quine. For those not “in the know,” a quine is a program that, when run, prints out it’s own source code. Delightfully recursive concept, I know. As to how this was accomplished using Whirl - I may never understand…

Just today I got another Whirl contribution from Nate Thern. This one isn’t a Whirl program, but is instead a translator from Brainfuck to Whirl that was written in Perl. Likely this was a fun little project for him - but perhaps more entertaining is the press release that accompanied his email. Love it!

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