Polyglot is a name given to programs that are valid in more than one language. For example, #include <stdio.h> #define do main() do { printf("Hello World!\n"); } is valid in C and Perl. I am not a programmer, only a mathematician who was writing a few examples for the students. I was writing the the examples with both C++ and Python versions for their convenience, when I wondered of the posibility of having the two versions in the same file. I didn't know the existence of the term polyglot (refering to programs) or that they can be such a source of fun. My question is: Is it known a technique to have a universal polyglot for C++ and Python. By universal I mean that rather than being a single program, it is a template that allows to rewrite any (reasonably short) program in C++ and its version for Python into a polyglot that combines them. Maybe I should ask first for existence of C++/Python polyglots, because in my searches I didn't see a C++/Python polyglot. I posted it here because I wanted the polyglot for a slightly practical reason. I could post it in Programming Puzzles & Code Golf. If it should go there instead. For me it is hard to judge the existence or materialize a solution. I don't have much experience on these clever constructions. I tried enclosing the Python part between #if 0 and #endif, which would be comments in Python and tell C++ to ignore that part. For the C++-usable part I tried enclosing it into the docstring, which for most effects would be ignored by Python. But couldn't find a way to make the quotation marks acceptable for both Python and C++. #if 0 print('Hi there') #endif #if 0 """ #endif #include<iostream> int main() { std::cout << "Hi there" << std::endl; return 0; } #if 0 """ #endif For C++, we got for """: warning: missing terminating " character Continue reading...
