Malboge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malbolge) was featured on an episode of Elementary. It's named after the eighth circle of hell in Dante's Inferno.
Malbolge was so difficult to understand when it arrived that it took two > years for the first Malbolge program to appear. The first Malbolge program > was not written by a human being, it was generated by a beam > search<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beam_search>algorithm designed by Andrew > Cooke and implemented in > Lisp <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_programming_language> > -david On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 6:06 AM, Miles Fidelman <mfidel...@meetinghouse.net>wrote: > Well, for evocative names, there's always Brainfuck ( > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Brainfuck<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck>) > - which is a real language, with derivatives even. And the name is truly > accurate. :-) > > John Carlson wrote: > >> >> Ah first time I came across a language with such an evocative name. >> Since I am too paranoid to click on a link, perhaps you could summarize. I >> did a search and it seemed to indicate that the language was a joke. Sigh. >> >> On Feb 12, 2013 7:26 PM, "Miles Fidelman" <mfidel...@meetinghouse.net<mailto: >> mfidelman@**meetinghouse.net <mfidel...@meetinghouse.net>>> wrote: >> >> John Carlson wrote: >> >> >> Is there a computer language (yes I realize games do this) >> that work like human languages? With features like >> misdirection, misinterpretation, volume, persuasion? Can we >> come up with a social language for computers? No, I'm not >> talking lojban, I'm talking something something semantically >> and/or syntactically ambiguous. Maybe lingodroids is close. >> More work in this area would be interesting. >> >> >> Well PPL (Paranoid Programming Language) might come close. >> http://zzo38computer.org/**backup/paranoid-programming-** >> language.html<http://zzo38computer.org/backup/paranoid-programming-language.html>:-) >> >> -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. >> In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> fonc mailing list >> fonc@vpri.org <mailto:fonc@vpri.org> >> >> http://vpri.org/mailman/**listinfo/fonc<http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc> >> >> >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> fonc mailing list >> fonc@vpri.org >> http://vpri.org/mailman/**listinfo/fonc<http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc> >> > > > -- > In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. > In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra > > ______________________________**_________________ > fonc mailing list > fonc@vpri.org > http://vpri.org/mailman/**listinfo/fonc > > -- > -david >
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