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5-way multiquine
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Pentaquine

==========



This is a 5-part multiquine. A multiquine should not be mistaken for a quine relay or ouroboros program - a great example of which can be found [here](https://github.com/mame/quine-relay).



![logo](https://raw.github.com/rvantonder/pentaquine/master/pentaquine_diag.png)



The multiquine is described in great detail by David Madore (creator of Unlambda) [here](http://www.madore.org/~david/computers/quine.html), but can be summed up as follows:



"A multiquine is a set of *r* different programs (in *r* different languages — without this condition we could take them all equal to a single quine), **each** of which is able to print **any** of the *r* programs (including itself) according to the command line argument it is passed. (Note that cheating is not allowed: the command line arguments must not be too long — passing the full text of a program is considered cheating)."



Visually, we have a graph in which we can transition to each language from any other language by specifying the appropriate command-line flag.



As a consequence, one can generate a quine relay from the 5 languages, or a subset thereof, in any sequence that you fancy.



You could also think of each language as a state, and the flags as state transitions. This suddenly looks suspiciously like some sort of state-machine, composed of quines; an interesting phenomenon.



### Running it



You can boostrap the pentaquine with



    $ python bootstrapper.py > pentaquine.py



Pass command-line arguments to generate successive sources:



    $ python pentaquine.py pl > pentaquine.pl



Have a look at `test.sh` for a more comprehensive, albeit crude, testing script.



### Misc



This was tested on:



* Ubuntu 12.04



with



* Python 2.7.3



* Perl v5.14.2



* newLISP v.10.4.5



* gcc version 4.6.3



* F# 3.0 (Open Source Edition)



### License



Copyright (c) 2013 Rijnard van Tonder, @_raikey



MIT License



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