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Malbolge

Esoteric Language

Malbolge is an esoteric programming language created by Ben Olmstead in 1998, named after the eighth circle of Hell, Malebolge, in the poem Inferno by Dante Alighieri. Malbolge was specifically designed to be as difficult to program in as possible, employing a deliberately convoluted instruction-encryption scheme and self-modifying code, and it took roughly two years after its release before the first genuinely original Malbolge program was written, with earlier ones produced by automated search rather than direct human authorship.

Facts
First Released
1998 1
Paradigm
Esoteric, imperative, scalar, value-level 2
Significance
Deliberately designed to be almost impossible to use, via a counter-intuitive crazy operation, base-three arithmetic and self-altering code 2
Connections

In Field

Programming Language Theory, Fields
Source Malbolge, Wikipedia

Influenced By

Befunge, Programming Languages
Source Wikidata: Malbolge
Brainfuck, Programming Languages
Source Wikidata: Malbolge
Sources
1. Wikidata: Malbolge
  • Wikidata Q517956, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
  • Wikidata Q517956 P571 (inception)
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2. Malbolge, Wikipedia
  • Lead paragraph, first sentence
    invented by Ben Olmstead in 1998, named after the eighth circle of hell in
  • Infobox, paradigm field
    Esoteric, imperative, scalar, value-level
  • Lead paragraph, second sentence
    It was specifically designed to be almost impossible to use, via a counter-intuitive "crazy operation", base-three arithmetic, and self-altering code.
  • In Field: Programming Language Theory, Lead sentence
    Malbolge () is a public-domain esoteric programming language invented by Ben Olmstead in 1998, named after the eighth circle of hell in Dante's Inferno, the Malebolge.
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Programming Language Database (PLDB): Malbolge - PLDB
Programming Language Database (PLDB)In Group: Minimalist and Unconventional Esoteric Languages, Page text
Quote, In Group: Minimalist and Unconventional Esoteric Languages, Page text
esoteric programming language invented by Ben Olmstead
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