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Among the references for the Wikipedia article on quines there’s something that made my day: some guy wrote a program that, when passed through eleven (!) compilers / interpreters (each implementing a different programming language) in sequence, ends up printing out its own source code.

That’s quite an impressive feat in and of itself, of course, but what made it really amazing for me is the fact that he used Beef, an interpreter I wrote, as the reference Brainfuck runtime. And he installed it from the Debian package I maintain, too!