What fascinated about this article is that there's a whole other world out there of geeks/programmers/hackers beyond our English speaking world doing their own things and sharing their own ideas.
For a Theory of Computation class I had as a part of the homework to write a program that writes itself <i>in one programming language</i>. It is amazing that such programs exists that can switch languages and can go through several methamorphoses
That is pretty cool but really, could whoever wrote that not have spent however long that took (which I'm guessing is quite long) doing something a lot more worthwhile.