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[Guest]

I don't know if anyone cares, but there are some programming languages called esoteric programming languages. They are designed to be a challenge to programmers. I think they are really fun. The most popular ones are Brainfuck and Befunge. I haven't messed with Befunge yet but it looks very cool. Brainfuck was designed to be as easy to compile as possible, and Befunge was designed for the opposite. More information can be found on Wikipedia and esolangs.org. Maybe this can kill some free time.
Example of an infinite loop in Brainfuck:

+[]

Now in Befunge:

>v

^<

Hello World in Brainfuck:

>+++++++++[<++++++++>-]<.>+++++++[<++++>-]<+.+++++++..+++.>>>++++++++[<++++>-]

<.>>>++++++++++[<+++++++++>-]<---.<<<<.+++.------.--------.>>+.

Now in Befunge:

0"!dlroW ,olleH">:#,_@

[Sinipull]

Hmm, guess the only point of this is:
brainPower++;

[ZekeDragon]

You want a CHALLENGE?!

Write in Malbolge, now that is a challenging language. :) Also, most esoteric language actually aren't designed to be difficult, for example Brainf*** is designed to be a super-minimalistic turing-complete language, difficulty just comes as a tertiary benefit. Malbolge was designed specifically to be ridiculously hard.

I'd be surprised if you could pull of "Hello CodeCall!" in that language.

Edited by ZekeDragon, 24 September 2009 - 09:14 PM.
EDIT: I keep saying "Malborge", it's "MalboLge" >_<

[asafe]

ZekeDragon said:

You want a CHALLENGE?!

Write in Malborge, now that is a challenging language. :) Also, most esoteric language actually aren't designed to be difficult, for example Brainf*** is designed to be a super-minimalistic turing-complete language, difficulty just comes as a tertiary benefit. Malborge was designed specifically to be ridiculously hard.

I'd be surprised if you could pull of "Hello CodeCall!" in that language.

 ('&%:9]!~}|z2Vxwv-,POqponl$Hjig%eB@@>}=<M:9wv6WsU2T|nm-,jcL(I&%$#"

 `CB]V?Tx<uVtT`Rpo3NlF.Jh++FdbCBA@?]!~|4XzyTT43Qsqq(Lnmkj"Fhg${z@>

Yeah, it's odd.

[Guest]

If anyone has some interesting programs they made in Brainfuck or Befunge, then please share. I want to see what some expert programmers can make. If you could make the Game of Life or something of equal coolness, that would be so awesome! So far the most complicated thing I have made in Brainfuck is a rot13 encoder/decoder.

[brownhead]

Wow, Malborge does not look at all fun. That's insane.

[Guest]

brownhead said:

Wow, Malborge does not look at all fun. That's insane.

I agree with you on that. Malbolge is just too crazy. I just started messing around with Befunge. Now that is a cool language. It uses data flow with arrows to point where the program is going. You can read about Befunge here. There is also a Javascript interpreter.

[Guest]

I made a factorial program in Befunge :D

v         @.\<    <

0       >+>:!|

>&>:1-:!|    >\: !|

  ^     < ^      *<

Update: I made a random number generator.
It generates 8 digit binary numbers.

v>@

8|!:-1.<

v< >   ^

v>1^

>?0^   

 ^

Edited by Guest, 24 September 2009 - 10:08 PM.
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[so1i]

These languages are so cool lol. Really insane to even try and get your head around though. Especially Malebolge!

[relapse]

Holy ****! That looks very challenging and worth doing.

[TkTech]

If I remember correctly, It took 6 or 8 years for the first Malbolge program to show up. And it was just 'Hello World'