- Polyglot (computing)
In the context of
computing , a polyglot is acomputer program or script written in a valid form of multipleprogramming language s, which performs the same operations or output independently of the programming language used to compile or interpret it.Generally polyglots are written in a combination of C (which allows redefinition of tokens with a
preprocessor ) and ascripting programming language such as Lisp,Perl or sh.The two most commonly used techniques for constructing a polyglot program are to make liberal use of languages which use different characters for comments and to redefine various tokens as others in different languages. Often good use is made of quirks of
syntax . These are demonstrated in thispublic domain polyglot written in ANSI C,PHP andbash :#define a /* #
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Polyglot (computing)
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