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		callahad on Jan 19, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Poly.html - check the source http://ideology.com.au/polyglot/ is a nice eight-language (Cobol, Pascal, Fortran, C, PostScript, Shell, x86, Perl) polyglot program. Conveniently, it has a source viewer which will highlight relevant parts of the program's structure for a given language. For instance, the C compiler sees this: http://ideology.com.au/polyglot/c/

shiro on Jan 19, 2009 [–]

Check out this.

http://shinh.skr.jp/dat_dir/fizzbuzz7.gif

It is a valid GIF image file, but also a valid Fizz Buzz program in Ruby, Perl, Befunge, Z80 machine code, and x86 machine code.

khafra on Jan 20, 2009 | [–]

Befunge makes it epic, but it could be polycode for the ages if the picture itself compiled to a FizzBuzz program in Piet (http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet.html)

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