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No love for ternary computers?

• talideon 10y ago
  You're looking for Malbolge: https://esolangs.org/wiki/malbolge https://esolangs.org/wiki/malbolge
  • yiyus 10y ago
    I was actually thinking in the Setun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun and DSSP. But thanks for the reference, I did not know Malbolge (though it looks like it uses the set 0, 1, 2 instead of the IMO more useful -1, 0, 1).
    • talideon 10y ago
      Malbolge (and Dis) are the classic ternary esolangs. I fiddled around with that in a long lost esolang back in the day. Keep in mind that Malbolge is meant to be awkward, so while (-1, 0, 1) might be more useful, (0, 1, 2) suit Malbolge's perverseness much better, though I doubt that was a conscious decision.
  • nickpsecurity 10y ago
    This is when you know you're about to experience a steep, learning curve: "language designed to be as difficult to program in as possible. The first "Hello, world!" program written in it was produced by a Lisp program using a local beam search of the space of all possible programs."
    • talideon 10y ago
      And why Dis exists.