Why not? Why not? Why not?

not because it is easy but because it is hard

George Mallory would say: "Because it was there"

It's awesome and inspired.

Computer Scientists and generally-terrific engineers often choose to do examples that are largely academic in nature because that engineer (or maybe -any- engineer) hasn't yet encountered that class of problem. They do this because the question can present a challenge to efficiency or elegance, or even defy a solution completely.

Often times, the journey produces lessons along the way that can be applied to other problems. On occasiona, it's a trainwreck that produces little fruit. However, when the answer is found, you might find new ways to do old things. If the answer is elegant, you can put another star next to your name attesting to the fact that there is one more question that you've never backed-down from, and answered beautifully.

I, for one, was astounded to find that, not only could he loop through fifty different languages, but that he ended up at the same code with which he began. This is a testament to how fundamental/efficient that each transient result was: there was no additional gibberish was produced by any specific one, which would likely produce more gibberish at one or more downstream steps.

As far as practicality is concerned, there is often a need to produce any number of libraries for programmers to develop against. The best of us find a way to define a structure that we can then permute to whatever language is required. Apache Thrift produces such a mechanism for client-libraries.

Thanks for doing this, Gabriel.

Sheldon Cooper would say "Because we can"

mengzhuo, i would a button "like" for the comments.

Why not? Maybe this could be useful for showing off all open source lanauges? 😄

"Why?" Because it's beautiful and funny. It's "nerd art" :-)

ultimate derping.

"Because I can, bitches!" 🍪

Be cause

👍

This is so awesome!

🌷 🐢

Why? Because. Because why? Because why because.

Shit happens

Beacuse it ...:feelsgood:!

One of the applications can be to encrypt a program
Let's say someone writes program in X and quine it and convert it to Y which can't be used to give back the original code untill run through some kind of custom compiler

Autism.

Oh.

Love it! I was creating a program that generates a quine java code, and found this piece of art. Good job! 👍

Amazing achievement truly.
The next logical step of course would be to make this into a 100-step loop performing also some calculation like adding up from 1 to 100. That would be enough of a proof for the existence of Quine Combinators!

For the hell of it of course!

Great Work :-)

Source

^{Was the first thing I thought of. Love this project}

this is a piece of art!

I was going to ask the same question... WHY

We do what we must because we can

I love it!

Why? Why? Why?

To get sweet internet karma of course

because it had to be done I guess

because it had to be done I guess

but why?

To be the first.

Either you die an Engineer or, you live long enough to see yourself become an academic .

Because the chicken wanted to cross the road.

Because we can test those bazillions of compilers out there that we can never have time to test in the rest of our life.

Because they are still there.

Science isn't about why, it's about why not?

yes

quality assurance

Because why not have an issue that questions why or why not why or why not, "Why or why not should we have the repo?"

Now if we add text-to-speech, it could recite it's own source code to Google Home and ask Amazon Alexa to compile and run it.

So naïve...

Love it

we do what we must because we can

to sell more RAM 🐏💴💴💴💴💴💴

@dreamyguy

Be cause

So poetic. "Be the cause". Create a new branch in the infinite set of possible timelines where we didn't do what we wanted, because we were afraid of failure, or because we underestimated ourselves. Be the cause of this timeline being the one where you succeed

@jeffli678

Because the essence of programming is repeating.

Because_the_essence_of_programming_is_repeating = "Because the essence of programming is repeating".split()
while True:
  for word in Because_the_essence_of_programming_is_repeating:
    for _ in range(len(Because_the_essence_of_programming_is_repeating)):
      print(word)

Gist

@chapmanjacobd

to sell more RAM 🐏💴💴💴💴💴💴

I prefer to download RAM

YEET

This is honestly a beautiful thing. I look forward to learning a new language by looking at the language I know now and seeing what's different! 👌👌

Wonderful

it's not about the money, it's about sending a mesage

do it for the lulz

This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will
Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name (Mike!)

He doesn't need his name up in lights
He just wants to be heard, whether it's the beat or the mic
He feels so unlike everybody else, alone
In spite of the fact that some people still think that they know him
But fuck 'em, he knows the code, it's not about the salary
It's all about reality and making some noise
Making a story, making sure his clique stays up
That means when he puts it down, Tak's picking it up, let's go

Who the hell is he, anyway? He never really talks much
Never concerned with status but still leaving 'em star-struck
Humbled through opportunities given despite the fact
That many misjudge him 'cause he makes a living from writing raps
Put it together himself, now the picture connects
Never asking for someone's help (Help), or to get some respect ('Spect)
He's only focused on what he wrote, his will is beyond reach
And now it all unfolds to the skill of an artist