Talk:Malbolge

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Should "hello world" be capitalized the way it is? It originally had no caps i believe. Now it has odd mixture of upper/lowercase letters. Perl 00:07, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Looking at the rest of the article, you'll see that no human-written malbolge programs exist, only ones that have been 'found' - essentially by trial and error. So ideally, we would include a program that displayed "Hello, world" or some other rational equivalent, but the best that exists is one that displays an odd mixture of upper and lower case. What that exact mixture is, I couldn't tell you for sure without a malbolge compiler to run it through, but I think the basic idea is correct. - IMSoP 00:29, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC) [Apologies for my over-verbosity, it's late and I'm tired]
Yes, it is actually "hEllO wORld". MISSINGNO. was here. 22:32, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Now a moot point, since Antwon posted his version.

Today, after reading here how hard it is, I wrote a program which generates Malbolge programs writing various strings. It was quite easy. :-)

I'm going to describe right now. Taw 12:03, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)

The article doesn't say that it is hard. It says that when the language came out, it was hard. No one working with it at the time took the time or knew how to simplify it until a few years later. With the simplified explanation added to the article, it is much easier to understand than the language specification made it. — 12.214.45.9 20:08, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
These "simplification" are trivial. For anyone with even the most basic understanding of cryptography, it is obvious that you can get rid of one of lookup tables, substractions and additions. Therefore your claim that it was difficult and is easy now is false. Probably no hello world was written in the first 2 years only because hardly anyone seriously tried. Taw 04:00, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)

From the "Pointer notation" section:

[d] means the value of d is a memory address; [d] is the value stored at the address.

This is very unclear to me, and I don't know what it's trying to say: could someone clarify? AndrewWTaylor 14:41, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

This cannot be fixed effectively unless you are more specific. What about it is unclear ? Do you not understand what a memory address is, or what it means to store something at an address, or something else ? Was the section explaining what d means unclear or unread by you ? — 131.230.133.186 10:20, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
Saying "[d] means the value of d is a memory address" is like saying "the mane is the hair on a horse is an animal". Kind of a broken sentence. Bromskloss 18:21, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
I think I understand. Perhaps a better phrasing would have been "[d] means that the value of d is a memory address". — 131.230.133.186 12:37, 26 June 2006 (UTC)