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Maybe it was just an experiment with viral marketing, estimating a 1%-10% chance it would make it into programmer social media circles and make them hungry for
by SkyMarshal 6y ago
Maybe it was just an experiment with viral marketing, estimating a 1%-10% chance it would make it into programmer social media circles and make them hungry for KFC instead of pizza or avocado toast.
The inclusion of Malbolge is obviously intended to cause them to look up how it works, resulting in acceleration of both their mental fatigue and physical hunger.
- mywittyname 6y agoMight have also been included because Malbolge is included in a listicle that is the top search result for "weird programming languages." I wouldn't be surprised if show writers did a search for something close to that phrase, found the article, immediately got the literary reference and included it in the show for that reason. Also, you probably can't say brainfuck on daytime TV. None of the other languages had interesting names, i.e., glass, whitespace, chicken, lolcode. Edit: They've probably done something similar with other technical topics, but we don't watch the show to know. Such as, having a rocket scientist on the show talking about building rocket recovery wadding or something after looking through a GIS for "rocket parts."
- tclancy 6y ago>Also, you probably can't say brainfuck Honestly, I have never figured out how to say that code out loud anywhere.
- recursive 6y agoI've found a lot of places where you can just say it normally.
- Aeronwen 6y agoINTERCAL seems well-suited for daytime TV.
- jandrese 6y ago"Malbolge" does at least sound sinister, so if you're going for an evil hacker vibe it's perfect.
- a1369209993 6y ago> None of the other languages had interesting names, i.e., glass, whitespace, chicken, lolcode. Befunge[0], obviously, though you don't get a literary reference out of that. 0: https://esolangs.org/wiki/Befunge https://esolangs.org/wiki/Befunge