{"id":2599,"date":"2016-10-27T14:52:50","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T21:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=2599"},"modified":"2016-10-27T15:21:47","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T22:21:47","slug":"malbolge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=2599","title":{"rendered":"Malbolge"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Malbolge is the 8th \/ second deepest circle of Hell in Dante’s Inferno<\/em>. It’s also a programming language that recently appeared in the TV show Elementary:<\/p>\n

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For Dante, Malbolge was a funneled pit<\/a> with 10 different ditches that contained the different people guilty of fraud: seducers, fraudulent lenders, forgers, alchemists, sowers of discord, perjurers, impersonators, false counselors, and the like.<\/p>\n

Malbolge is also a programming language<\/a> designed by\u00a0Ben Olmstead<\/a> in 1998 to be a nearly impossible language to use. It takes previous ridiculous languages like Brainfuck and the like, and then combines the ideas with base 3 arithmetic, self-altering code, encryption, and other esoteric computer science topics.<\/p>\n

It turns out the code above is actually valid, and prints “Hello World”.<\/p>\n

Reminds me of these guys. After years of seeing people horribly butcher computers, they decided to make sure everything appearing on screen was valid and correct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Malbolge is the 8th \/ second deepest circle of Hell in Dante’s Inferno. It’s also a programming language that recently appeared in the TV show Elementary: For Dante, Malbolge was a funneled pit with 10 different ditches that contained the different people guilty of fraud: seducers, fraudulent lenders, forgers, alchemists, sowers of discord, perjurers, impersonators, false counselors, and the like. Malbolge is also a programming language designed by\u00a0Ben Olmstead in 1998 to be a nearly impossible language to use….<\/p>\n

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