[bux93]

Reminds me of a cool tool I once used, uudecode.com, which was a DOS binary that only used 7-bit characters and could decode uuencoded (base64 predecessor) files. Was useful for getting attachments through e-mail in the face of all kinds of filters.

[eesmith]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16312317 - "A C89 compiler that produces executables that are also valid ASCII text files"

http://tom7.org/abc/

The paper for SIGBOVIK 2017 is both a text file and an executable.

[metadat]

Really near.

Also discussed 11 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36821985 (15 comments)