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Malbolge
KindProgramming language
Appeared1998
StatusDead
CreatorBen Olmstead
FamilyEsoteric
Sourceesolangs.org ↗

Designed to be impossible — self-encrypting trinary instructions named after Dante's eighth circle; the first real program took two years and a search algorithm to produce.

Created by Ben Olmstead

Ben Olmstead's Malbolge (1998) — named for Dante's eighth circle — was designed to be the hardest language ever: self-modifying code, trinary arithmetic, and an instruction set that encrypts itself as it runs.\n\nThe first 'Hello, world!' took two years and a search algorithm to find.

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Sources

  1. esolangs.org/wiki/Malbolge
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malbolge