Linked Questions
19 questions linked to/from Golf a mutual quine
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Inter-language 2-cycle quine [duplicate]
Challenge
Create 2 programs A and B
The output of program A is exactly program B
The output of program B is exactly program A
Neither program should depend on inputs to yield the correct output
A ...
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Mutually Exclusive Quines
Your challenge is simple. Write two programs that share no characters which output each other.
Example
Two programs P and Q are mutually exclusive quines if:
P outputs Q
Q outputs P
There is no ...
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Cyclic Weak Levenquine
This question asking us to make a "Cyclic Levenquine" has gone unanswered. So today we will ask a slightly simpler version. In this challenge we will define a K-Levenquine to be a program whose ...
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Cyclic strings, hidden programs
Write 3 programs that do the following task:
Let A, B, C source codes of those three programs;
if A runs BC is produced as output,
if B runs CA is produced,
if C runs AB is produced;
so each program ...
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Interquine - Two programs that output each other in a loop
Program A outputs program B's code when run, and B outputs A's source.
Requirements:
Only one language across both programs
Programs are different. One program that outputs itself does not qualify. ...
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Period 2 Reversed Quine
Your task is to write a program that outputs its own source code in reverse. However, when the reversed code is run, it should output the source code, facing the correct direction.
Example
Say your ...
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Cheating Cyclic Quine
Concept
Write a program that outputs code in its programming language. That code, when executed, must output the original program.
Rules
Since this is a cheating quine, you can read the original ...
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Mutual Negative Quines
This was inspired by Print a Negative of your Code and Golf a mutual quine.
Consider a rectangle of characters, that meet the following restrictions:
Consists solely of printable ASCII characters
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Write a Polyquine
A polyquine is both quine and polyglot.1 You are to write a quine which is valid in at least two different languages. This is code golf, so the shortest answer (in bytes) wins.
1 I made that up. Or ...
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Codegolf: Quine and Antiquine
This challenge is similar to Can you Meta Quine?
A quine is a program that produces itself on STDOUT. This challenge is to produce a program A which when run produces a program B on STDOUT. Program B ...
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Create a chain of programs in different languages [duplicate]
Create a program in any language, which outputs the source code for a program in another language, which outputs the source code for a program in another language, and so on.
Please post at the top ...
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Generate code in another language [duplicate]
Write a program in language A which outputs a program in language B where:
Language A != Language B
The output is itself a solution to this question.
This is a popularity contest. If you want to ...
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Implement ROT-47... in ROT-47
Challenge: Implement ROT-47 in code that works as both itself and as the ROT-47 version of itself.
Scoring:
Your score is calculated as a percentage of used, ROT-47 eligible bytes in total of both ...
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Golfing Relay Race
You need to write a program in any language that will produce (source code for) a program in a different language. That program will produce a 3rd program in another language and so on.
You should ...
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Can you Meta Quine?
Similar to other quine puzzles (more specifically, this one), write a program that produces the source for itself.
Here's the new twist: The code produced should NOT be identical to the source. ...
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