That's a good name for a programming language! On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 4:20 AM, David Pennell <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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 < > [email protected]> 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" >>> <[email protected]<mailto: >>> mfidelman@**meetinghouse.net <[email protected]>>> 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 >>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>> >>> http://vpri.org/mailman/**listinfo/fonc<http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ______________________________**_________________ >>> fonc mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> 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 >> [email protected] >> http://vpri.org/mailman/**listinfo/fonc >> >> -- >> -david <http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc> >> > > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > [email protected] > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc > > -- Casey Ransberger
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