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Polyglot Interpreters
Challenge
Choose any number of languages. Call this set L.
Write a program so that running it in any language in L produces an interpreter for a different language ...
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Make a polyglot generator
A polyglot is a program that runs in several languages.
Your challenge is to:
Choose at least two languages (Different versions count as different languages)
Create a program or function that takes ...
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Polyglot self-interpreter time
Your task is to make a program which interprets the language it is run in, but also works in many languages.
Let's say you make a Brainfuck-Underload self-interpreglot, as it will be called. Run in ...
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Polyglot Iterative Quine
Introduction
A polyglot is a program that is valid in multiple languages at once. An iterative quine is a program that outputs another program that outputs another program that outputs the source of ...
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Write a “hello world” program that can be compiled/interpreted as two different languages simultaneously [duplicate]
Rules:
Your program must print "hello world" when executed
Your program must be interpretable or compilable into 2 or more languages
Your program must require no input or arguments
Languages with ...
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An OEIS polyglot
This is an answer-chaining challenge relating to the OEIS.
Oh, the justification for this is because a company needs one program to print out their OEIS sequences real bad and they have every ...
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2answers
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A Multipurpose Quine
I personally love quines, but they all seem to be so... static. So why not create a quine that can do more.
Challenge
The challenge here is to create a quine that without any sort of input is a ...
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5answers
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Quine of orders
Write a program that, when run in different languages, outputs a different byte permutation of the code in each language. The exact source code is counted as one permutation.
Here "different language"...
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33answers
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Wait, what language is this?
Recently I had the pleasure of writing a Haskell program that could detect if the NegativeLiterals extension was engaged. I came up with the following:
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15answers
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Hello World in Multiple Languages
Task
Create a program or a function that is valid in multiple programming languages, and when compiled/interpreted as a different language outputs "Hello, World!" in a different natural language.
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Determine your language's version
Your challenge is to write a polyglot that works in different versions of your language. When run, it will always output the language version.
Rules
Your program should work in at least two versions ...
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Polyglot the (non constant) OEIS!
Disclaimer: This is heavily inspired by "Polyglot the OEIS!" but fixes the problem that lead to closure (see the output section) and was re-posted as to not invalidate answers.
Introduction
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Polyglot the OEIS! [duplicate]
Note: This challenge has been moved to Polyglot the (non constant) OEIS! to avoid closure.
Introduction
We all know and love the on-line encyclopedia of integer sequences (OEIS). So what if we made ...
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Anaglot Polygrams
Task
Write some code that can be rearranged into n different programs in n different languages each outputting a distinct number from 1 to n.
No two languages should be the same however different ...
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3answers
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The Big Bang Polyglot [duplicate]
Everyone loves The Big Bang Theory, right? And everyone loves polyglots, right? So let's combine them!
Task
Your task in each language is quite basic. You must output the name of the one of the 5 main ...
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7answers
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Print Polyglot Pieces
Typically, polyglots are constructed in such a manner that each language can ignore parts of the code that are present for other languages, by wrapping them in string literals, using comment syntax, ...
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1answer
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Make a regex polyglot
Write a regex that works in at least 2 regex flavors (or versions), and match a different string in each flavor (or version) it is running in.
The strings to be matched in this challenge are the ...
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Multi-lingual Challenge
After all the fun we've had with polyglot challenges in the (recent) past, how about a challenge where the output can be in two languages?
Your answer needs to accept boolean input ...
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1answer
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Comment-free polyglot with different, nontrivial, behaviour per language
This challenge is inspired by this other challenge, which you may want to read first for some context. However, a competitive answer is likely to look very different, so after reading some posts on ...
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15answers
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What will you bring for Thanksgiving?
Thanksgiving in the United States is coming up on November 24th. Many people will have a large dinner with their families, traditionally including turkey and many side dishes. This typically means the ...
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When was this language released?
Your challenge is simple. You need to write a program that prints to either STDOUT or a file the year the language it is written in was released. Because this is such a simple task, the twist is that ...
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Write a Palindrome-Polyglot-Quine
Write a "palipolyquine": a program that is a quine, a polyglot, and a palindrome.
Rules:
The number of polyglot languages is more preferable than code size.
The shortest answer (in bytes) wins, in ...
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“I know that language - that's Java. No? It's Perl?” [duplicate]
Introduction
A known fact is that Jon Skeet can code Perl and make it look like Java. In this challenge you will try to do something similar.
Challenge
Write a piece of code of any length that can ...
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0answers
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Windows batch polyglot/hybrids challenge with any language possible [closed]
/* I hope such question is suitable for here*/
As the batch scripts are pretty limited, hybrid files that embed a code from another language into a batch file are used a lot lately.
Though usually ...
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4answers
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An executable script file that runs on POSIX and Windows
Challenge: write a single script file foo.cmd which can be invoked from the vanilla Windows cmd.exe prompt (not PowerShell, not ...
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40answers
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The Versatile Integer Printer
Write a piece of code that is executable in at least three different languages. The code must output the integer 1 in language number one, ...
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3answers
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Carrots. So. Many. Carrots
The Inspiration
The Task
You must create a program, that, in as many languages as possible, replaces every instance of ^ with a markdown formatted link (meaning ...
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5answers
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Overcoming cluster size
Fed up with the reliability of flash storage, you decided to store all your programs on one of those good old 1,440 KiB floppies. However, after copying not even 3,000 programs, the disk was full. How'...
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Non-Palindromic Polyglot Boggle
Introduction
The number 101 is a palindrome, since it reads the same backwards and forwards. The number 105 is not. However, 105 in base eight is written as 151, which is palindromic. On the other ...
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The polyglot challenge! [duplicate]
A polyglot is a program which can be run by several different language's interpreters/compilers without failing.
For example, the stackoverflow 404 page contains a polyglot which runs in Python, Perl,...
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5answers
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Just Another Polyglot Hacker! [duplicate]
Make a program which prints just another #{LANG} hacker where #{LANG} is the name of the language with which the program is ...
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13answers
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Write a Program in Disguise [closed]
The challenge is to create a program that solves any one of the HQ9+ problems while looking like another language.
Note: This is not a golf challenge.
Rules:
The program must perform one of the ...
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16answers
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Write a polyglot that prints the language's name
Your task is to write a program that executes in as many languages as possible, with as few characters as you can. To avoid trivial solutions, the program must print the name of the language it was ...
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2answers
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What code compiles in the most number of languages? [closed]
Excluding trivial programs, what code compiles in the most number of languages?
(By "trivial" I mean to exclude answers such as the empty program or text that will be echoed directly.)
The following ...
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3answers
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Acrostic polyglot programming [closed]
The challenge is to write an acrostic piece of code.
When read normally (horizontally), the code should take an input string and remove all but the first character on each line. For example, the ...
