This snippet of code is syntactically valid in both PHP and Java, and produces the same output in both.

PhpJava.java

/*<?php
//*/public class PhpJava { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.printf("/*%s",
//\u000A\u002F\u002A
class PhpJava {
    static function main() {
        echo(//\u000A\u002A\u002F
        "Hello World!");
}}
//\u000A\u002F\u002A
PhpJava::main();
//\u000A\u002A\u002F

PhpJava.php

/*<?php
//*/public class PhpJava { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.printf("/*%s",
//\u000A\u002F\u002A
class PhpJava {
    static function main() {
        echo(//\u000A\u002A\u002F
        "Hello World!");
}}
//\u000A\u002F\u002A
PhpJava::main();
//\u000A\u002A\u002F

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You were so preoccupied with whether or not you could, you didn't stop to think if you should

;)

Excellent work.

Love it

But now we'll never know if Schrodinger's computer is running php or java...

I hope you die in a fire of a 1000 java compilers.

I feel like this will be used for evil in the near future. You flew too close to the sun, Icarus...

Valid but it will throw a warning on calling a non static function, static

Really feel like you missed an opportunity to name this file PhpJava.java.php

I'd like to suggest we call this new language Phava.

+1 for Phava

Creative for sure.

This is fantastic.

There is no ?>, which is bugging the shit out of me.

+1 for Phava.

I further suggest that reusable libraries of code in this new ecosystem be referred to as "Phava Beans".

@Immortalizd : That would be on purpose. It's standard best practice at the moment to leave the ?> off the bottom of any PHP file. (It's not needed, and by leaving it off you can't accidentally end up with a random space or CR after it, causing output that was unintended.

Gah!

Genius.

Now we're heading towards files which will compile and interpret in all languages, to rule 'em all. No language wars anymore.

+1 for Phava because PhavaEE you'd have phava beans for your hannibal code that reflectively consumes other classes of the same type.

Another triumph of Banach's Fixed Point Theorem.

really nice!

+1 for Pharva.

Excellent 😄

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+1 for Pharva

"I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds" - @forairan (probably).

There's no ?> because you don't close php tags unless you're nesting php in html. http://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-2/#2-2-files

If you implement multi-object classes, will they be PhavaBeans? :-D

Why not phap ?

You were so preoccupied with whether or not you could, you didn't stop to think if you should

😂 😂

You've crossed the line, dear brother. Now what will happen to all of us?

I cannot wait to beat PHP slingers with this one.

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Legendary

wow

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It's helpful never to use ?> for the end of a file because then you never get the whitespace cookie header problem. And after a while it just seems cleaner.

creative !

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achievment unlocked?

+1 for Phava

... especially if you consider that in the Tuscan dialect it has a special meaning ;D

Confused computer is confused.

aha

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Please, please, please build a full web application server like this. So you know, no single point of failure :). Enterprise customers would be thrilled.

lol

Why not phap ?

+1

Those seeking to name the language are getting ahead of themselves; this is just printing a string. Some more work would be needed to demonstrate this can perform arbitrary computation before calling it a language. [... then someone could produce a (say) javascript interpreter with it...]

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PHava

Actually, Phava can be a bit rude and sexually explicit for the people of Tuscany (Italy).
Besides this minor annoyance, nice name.

Nice one, there are however some strict notices to be taken care of: https://3v4l.org/0SDi4

@gmaxwell, you don't get it

I hava created JavaCSharp in the same way~~
JavaCSharp
A code that is valid in Java and C# (Tested in VS2015)

Can you do it for 3 languages ? 🎅

Being from Tuscany (Italy), +1 for Phava

Like that Phava 👍

+1

Phjava..good one

syntactically valid but horrible looking.

That's an abomination... I'm pretty sure the Ghostbusters warned us of this

So who's going to do a to-do app in this format? :D

$ time php PhpJava.java
/*Hello World!
real    0m0.079s
user    0m0.068s
sys 0m0.009s

$ time java PhpJava
/*Hello World!
real    0m0.113s
user    0m0.094s
sys 0m0.025s

I always knew that PHP is faster than Java.

+1 for Phava

This is fantastic 👍

Compiling Java code throwing me errors :(

Holy crap, this makes me weep. So ugly 😭

Urgh. Why this shit even exists? Oh boy, some hacker could erase all the compilers and source of Java and PHP... :(. Our World will be a better a please after this.

I for one welcome our new Phava bean overlords!

Some people just want to watch "Hello, world" burn.

Cool 👍

https://github.com/mauke/poly.poly
Please integrate with this.

You were so preoccupied with whether or not you could, you didn't stop to think if you should

😆

You were so preoccupied with whether or not you could, you didn't stop to think if you should

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You were so preoccupied with whether or not you could, you didn't stop to think if you should

Hands down best comment ever.

Same code, same output? Not REALLY. The execution paths are very different, so the compiler/parser isn't seeing the same code... and the output for the PHP example will actually be:

/*Hello World!

But does it run in HHVM?

@simonhamp - Yes, different execution paths, but that's the nature of this. It's a joke.
And in fact, if you read the code, you'd see that the Java example is adjusted to account for the extra /*. ;)

The point is that one source file is syntactically valid in two different languages, while producing the same output. Of course they won't have the same execution path.

👍 for Phava and Phava Beans

I am going to ditch all of our Java code now because PHava is faster.

What is the purpose of all the //\u000A\u002F\u002A comments?

@forairan PHP 7 result is

/*
Deprecated: Non-static method PhpJava::main() should not be called statically in PhpJava.php on line 10
Hello World!

To avoid this function main() { should be changed to static function main() {.

Now we can all just get along! Kumbaya~~

why not Jahp?

http://static3.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_small/11/111746/5135522-disneygoofy2012.jpeg

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Please, please, please build a full web application server like this. So you know, no single point of failure :). Enterprise customers would be thrilled.

Oh please no 😢 The problem is this would probably convince most PHBs.

@EvgenyOrekhov Fixed, thanks. I was too focused on making it work with both to focus on making it work with one ;)

@hamdrew There's good explanations on Reddit here and here. Essentially, it's a hacky way to tell Java to start/end a multiline comment, without triggering PHP to do the same.

PHP is the king of JAVA.

not bad, next step is to beat the polyglot quine at http://shinh.skr.jp/obf/

Nice!

Love it!

Phava +1

Phava +1

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I showed it to my boss and he now wants PHava in production. He believes in cheap and fast. :P

I'm going to create an IDE for this called "Chianti"

I don't know what is that function in Java ..

@cpmiller but why not PHava Jeans?

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@krupalshah

Phava +1

It reminds me a bit of the portuguese expression "vá às favas", which grossly translates to "gtfo"

lol

Don't let you're Phava dreams be dreams guys.

You were so preoccupied with whether or not you could, you didn't stop to think if you should.
+1

Phava
+1

Why is Phava phaping?

But... will it blend?

Just here to read the comments

Can somebody explain what happens after the printf, a string is printed and after that I haven't got a clue what is going on except that a class is created.

Sure, but does it transpile to Javascript?

Why not Japha?

Am I the only one who thought about the current USA election when seeing both code snippets?

PHava+1

I once had a similar idea of PHP in java and created this

Yoo Bro!

This is disgusting, and you should be ashamed. Both languages are already gross; mashing them together just makes me sick.

+1 bravo!

+1 for Phava!

What the...

I'd like to suggest we call this new language Phava.

+1

I suggest jhj
this is the only honest name I can produce for this stuff ...