This article is about the programming language. For the eighth circle of hell in Dante's Inferno, see Malebolge.
Malbolge
A cat program in Malbolge
Paradigm
Esoteric, imperative, scalar, value-level
Designed by
Ben Olmstead[1]
Developer
Ben Olmstead[1]
First appeared
1998
Typing discipline
Untyped
Filename extensions
.mal, .mb
Influenced by
Brainfuck, INTERCAL (Tri-INTERCAL), Befunge
Influenced
Dis, Malbolge Unshackled
Malbolge (/mælˈboʊldʒ/) is a public domain esoteric programming language invented by Ben Olmstead in 1998, named after the eighth circle of hell in Dante's Inferno, the Malebolge. It was specifically designed to be almost impossible to use, via a counter-intuitive 'crazy operation', base-three arithmetic, and self-altering code.[2] It builds on the difficulty of earlier challenging esoteric languages (such as Brainfuck and Befunge), but exaggerates this aspect to an extreme degree, playing on the entangled histories of computer science and encryption. Despite this design, it is possible to write useful Malbolge programs.
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