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F*** You! Co-Creator of Go Language is Rightly Furious Over This Appreciation Email (itsfoss.com)
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[–] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

That isn't a bad language. It's pretty simple and it serves a cool purpose, which is to convey the power of a Turing machine. Now this is a bad programming language.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Malbolge is great for replying to anyone who claims that since programming languages are Turing-complete, any one of them is fit for the job.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    You can transpile from C to Malbolge and then run it (this will probably take forever for most of C programs). I thought it can be used for obfuscation, and sure enough Wiki already states that:

    Hisashi Iizawa et al. also proposed a guide for programming in Malbolge for the purpose of obfuscation for software protection

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