Golf a mutual quine

Question

Using two languages of your choice, write the smallest “mutual quine” you can.

That is, write a program P in language A that outputs the source code for a program Q in language B, such that the output of program Q is identical to the source code for P.

Empty files don't count, nor do "read the source file and print it"-style programs.

Edit: Answers with P=Q no longer count.

Answer 1

Gol><> and APL, 10 bytes and 13 bytes

'r3d*:::}H

Try it online! Which outputs:

'''r3d*:::}H'

Try APL online!

Which simple prints the code as a string (with the ' escaped with another ')

Answer 2

Python and Ruby, 39 characters

This Python snippet

s='puts %%q{s=%r;print s%%s}';print s%s

generates this Ruby snippet

puts %q{s='puts %%q{s=%r;print s%%s}';print s%s}

which then generates the inital Python snippet again:

$ diff -s mutualquine.py <(ruby <(python mutualquine.py))
Files mutualquine.py and /dev/fd/63 are identical

Note that this is similar to J B's answer.

Answer 3

C and Perl, 73

This C:

main(s){printf(s="print q<main(s){printf(s=%c%s%c,34,s,34);}>",34,s,34);}

...outputs the following Perl:

print q<main(s){printf(s="print q<main(s){printf(s=%c%s%c,34,s,34);}>",34,s,34);}>

...that outputs the C back.

Answer 4

><> (Fish) and Python - 26 characters

"00gr00g:a9*2+$' tnirp'>o<

Generates this Python

print "\"00gr00g:a9*2+$' tnirp'>o<"

Answer 5

C and C++, 123 chars

This C (compilable with gcc v4.3.4):

#include <stdio.h>
main(){char *c="#include <stdio.h>%cmain(){char *c=%c%s%c;printf(c,10,34,c,34);}";printf(c,10,34,c,34);}

outputs this (identical) C++ (compilable with g++ 4.3.4, one warning):

#include <stdio.h>
main(){char *c="#include <stdio.h>%cmain(){char *c=%c%s%c;printf(c,10,34,c,34);}";printf(c,10,34,c,34);}

This is within the rules as posted. :P And, like Ventero's, this is based on J B's answer.

Answer 6

Java to Python - 219

Java:

class Q{public static void main(String[]a){char q=34,c=39;String s="print%sclass Q{public static void main(String[]a){char q=34,c=39;String s=%s%s%s;System.out.printf(s,c,q,s,q,c);}}%s";System.out.printf(s,c,q,s,q,c);}}

Python:

print'class Q{public static void main(String[]a){char q=34,c=39;String s="print%sclass Q{public static void main(String[]a){char q=34,c=39;String s=%s%s%s;System.out.printf(s,c,q,s,q,c);}}%s";System.out.printf(s,c,q,s,q,c);}}'

Makes use of the fact that python allows ' for strings; this makes it much easier to write the java program's source in the python program.

Answer 7

Python + Piet one-liners: 417 chars + 7391 7107 executing codels

This Python script produces a 7393 x 2 image; the rightmost 2x2 block of which is a "sentinel" which terminates the program; so I'm not counting those; and the second row is otherwise white. I can probably golf the piet code down further by using addition/subtraction/multiplication chains instead of the naive binary algorithm... but I don't want to give away a solution to a future puzzle.

I'm not going to post the image here, because of its ridiculous dimensions. If you want to see it, run the python code, and pipe the output to a .ppm file. Then, convert the .ppm to a .gif, and run the output at Rapapaing. (alternately, use a non-web Piet interpreter that groks .ppm)

A='P=lambda A:reduce(lambda(D,H,B),P:(D[P/3:]+D[:P/3],H[P%3*2:]+H[:P%3*2],B+"".join("%i "%H[(D[0]/P)%2]for P in[1,2,4])),map(" A !        @    B".find,A),([1,3,2,6,4,5],[0,192,192,255,0,255],"P3 %i 2 255 "%(len(A)+2)))[2]+"255 "*4+"0 0 "+"255 "*len(A)*3+"255 0 0 "*2;B=lambda D:["@!%s","@@!%s!"][D%2]%B(D/2)if 1<D else"";print P("".join("A%sB"%B(ord(D))for D in"A=%s;exec A[:-13]"%`A`)+" ");exec A[:-13]';exec A[:-13]

edit: golfed the piet a bit by reducing Hamming weight of variable names.

less golfed pre-quine:

This is a previous version, before I realized I could make it a one-liner. It's marginally easier to understand. The function P translates a special instruction set into Piet; and the function p takes an integer and produces a sequence of instructions to create that integer on the stack. I'm only using the instructions =,+,:,|, so this could probably be made more efficient... but I kinda like having a fullblown Piet compiler (of sorts) in the source.

s="""def P(s):
 l=len(s)+1;R="P3 %i 2 255 "%(l+2);C=[1,3,2,6,4,5];V=[0,192,192,255,0,255]
 for x in map("=|^+-*/%~>.,:@$?#!".find,"="+s):
  C=C[x//3:]+C[:x//3];V=V[x%3*2:]+V[:x%3*2]
  for i in [1,2,4]:R+="%i "%V[(C[0]//i)%2]
 return R+"255 "*4+"0 0 "+"255 "*l*3+"255 0 0 "*2
p=lambda x:[":+%s","::+%s+"][x%2]%p(x/2)if x/2 else""
print P("".join("|%s!"%k(ord(c))for c in "s="+`s`+";exec s[:-13]"))
exec s[:-13]"""
exec s[:-13]

Answer 8

/Brainf..k/, 6988 bytes

Brainfuck

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Answer 9

Ruby and Python (393 + 413 = 806 chars)

Slight change of this answer of mine. Could definitely be reduced since I just hard-coded the input without any optimisation.

Ruby (393 chars)

require 'json';s=%q[{"ruby":[" %q[","require 'json';s=##;j=JSON.load s;puts j[l='python'][1].sub('##',j[l][0].delete(' ')+s+j[l][2].delete(' '))"," ]"],"python":["' ''","import json,re;s=##;j=json.loads(s);l='ruby';print(re.sub('##',j[l][0].replace(' ','')+s+j[l][2].replace(' ',''),j[l][1],1))","' ''"]}];j=JSON.load s;puts j[l='python'][1].sub('##',j[l][0].delete(' ')+s+j[l][2].delete(' '))

Python (413 chars)

import json,re;s='''{"ruby":[" %q[","require 'json';s=##;j=JSON.load s;puts j[l='python'][1].sub('##',j[l][0].delete(' ')+s+j[l][2].delete(' '))"," ]"],"python":["' ''","import json,re;s=##;j=json.loads(s);l='ruby';print(re.sub('##',j[l][0].replace(' ','')+s+j[l][2].replace(' ',''),j[l][1],1))","' ''"]}''';j=json.loads(s);l='ruby';print(re.sub('##',j[l][0].replace(' ','')+s+j[l][2].replace(' ',''),j[l][1],1))

Answer 10

Python 2 to Befunge 98, 94 78

Again, making use of Python's two ways of making strings:

Python:

s='<@,kM%c%cs=%c%s%c;print s%%(39,34,39,s,39,34)%c';print s%(39,34,39,s,39,34)

Befunge 98:

<@,kM'"s='<@,kM%c%cs=%c%s%c;print s%%(39,34,39,s,39,34)%c';print s%(39,34,39,s,39,34)"

The python program formats the string to include itself and the characters for the single and double quote.

The Befunge program works like this:

• <: move to the left, and wrap around. So now we execute the commands from right to left

• ": make it so that every char we encounter is pushed to the stack until we encounter another ", so we push:

  )43,93,s,93,43,93(%s tnirp;'c%)43,93,s,93,43,93(%%s tnirp;c%s%c%=sc%c%Mk,@<'=s
  

  Which is actually just the python program, reversed because of the way Befunge prints (which is a pop+print loop)

• 'M: push M to the stack. M is also the number 77, which is one less than the number of chars pushed to the stack by the "s.
• k: pop the top value off the stack (M) and do the next operation that many times, plus one.
• ,: pop the top value off the stack and print the char.
• @: end the program.

Answer 11

Underload and Betaload, 16 bytes (non-competing)

Underload:

(a(:^)*a(S)*S):^

Betaload:

((a(:^)*a(S)*S):^)S

Betaload is a superset of Underload, so this could be two Underload answers.

This is non-competing because Betaload was created after this challenge was posted.

Answer 12

Jelly, 13 bytes

“Ṿ;⁾v`+/ŒṘ”v`

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RAD

'“Ṿ;⁾v`+/ŒṘ”v`'

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A Jelly quine that wraps itself in single quotes, such that the resultant RAD program simply prints the original Jelly program back out.

If the old rule about new languages still applies to older challenges, this is non-competing.

Answer 13

Clipper and C (111 + 108 = 219 chars)

Clipper (111)

?'char*f="%c%cchar*f=%c%s%c;main(){printf(f,63,39,34,f,34,39,10);}%c%c";main(){printf(f,63,39,34,f,34,39,10);}'

C (108)

char*f="%c%cchar*f=%c%s%c;main(){printf(f,63,39,34,f,34,39,10);}%c%c";main(){printf(f,63,39,34,f,34,39,10);}

This is a bit of a cop-out because:

1. the "print" command in Clipper is really simple: ?'foo' :-)
2. I based it on the "classic C" quine from http://www.nyx.net/~gthompso/quine.htm, with some modification to squeeze in the ? and 's.
3. I didn't #include <stdio.h>, so it gives a compiler warning
4. The C code output by the Clipper version had to be prodded to remove a line break that had been introduced by an 80-character column limit in either my terminal or the Harbour printing routine or something.

Answer 14

Javascript and Windows .bat (71 and 81)

f=()=>{console.log('echo f='+(f+';f()').replace(/(?=[>^\\])/g,'^'))};f()

and

echo f=()=^>{console.log('echo f='+(f+';f()').replace(/(?=[^>^^^\^\])/g,'^^'))};f()

Answer 15

Python and ~-~! - 77 and 81 = 158

This Python code:

q=chr(124);s='@%sq=chr(124);s=%s;print(s%%repr(s))%s:';print(s%(q,repr(s),q))

outputs this ~-~! code:

@|q=chr(124);s='@%sq=chr(124);s=%s;print(s%%repr(s))%s:';print(s%(q,repr(s),q))|:

Can definitely be improved a lot, and adopts a whole bunch from the other answers.