How could anyone read the first few sentences of this piece in Good Math, Bad Math and not be hooked?
I decided that for today, I’d show the most thoroughly evil programming language ever devised. This is a language so thoroughly evil that it’s named Malbolge after a circle of hell. It’s so evil that it’s own designer was not able to write a hello world program! In fact, the only way that anyone managed to write a “Hello World” was by designing a genetic algorithm to create one.
Be sure to read the comments, because the author admits that he made several mistakes when writing the piece. I think that these were clearly self-protective attempts by his unconscious mind to deflect the full force of the evil….
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