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>:-)
>>>
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