I'm bored (can you tell?) so I thought I'd see if anyone recognises this bit of code:

('&%:9]!~}|z2Vxwv-,POqponl$Hjig%eB@@>}=<M:9wv6WsU2T|nm-,jcL(I&%$#"

r

Rpo3NlF.Jh++FdbCBA@?]!~|4XzyTT43Qsqq(Lnmkj"Fhg${z@>

(may not render quite right?)

and can name the programming language and what the language is named after! Oh, and what does it do?

SFB maybe?

It is apparently real (unless the source is a joke!)

Hmm.. seemingly meaningless gibberish.. it's gotta be Perl.

Oh, no it's Malbolge

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malbolge

Not bad, but easy to read compared to Whitespace

GrahamS, you also appear to have too much time on your hands! (Very impressed by the way!)

You a programmer?!

code is right – I think it means Jesus is my ancestor…

Alternatively he could have spent 0.5 seconds pasting it into google 🙂

It's "Hello World" apparently….

it doesn't appear to be about programming as such, more a matter of being insufferably obscure – not that workable program code is necessarily transparent…

What's the name of the language where instead of having a goto statement it has a comefrom statement?

You a programmer?!

Indeed I am and as Ian suggests, like any good coder worth his salt, I can use Google pretty well 😀

simonfbarnes – Member
it doesn't appear to be about programming as such, more a matter of being insufferably obscure – not that workable program code is necessarily transparent…

I thought that was your forte, SFB 😆 (I am joking, really!)

But shouldn't workable code be transparent by definition?

If was hard to write it should be hard to read 🙂

GrahamS – Member

You a programmer?!

Indeed I am and as Ian suggests, like any good coder worth his salt, I can use Google pretty well

But this wasn't meant to be a test of Google skills! 😀

What's your best shot at 'hello world' in an obscure language?

How about:

with Text_IO;
use Text_IO;

procedure HelloWorld is
begin
Put_Line("Hello World");
end HelloWorld;

That is Ada.

How about this

IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
PROGRAM-ID. HelloWorld.
AUTHOR. Fabritius.

ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
CONFIGURATION SECTION.
INPUT-OUTPUT SECTION.

DATA DIVISION.
FILE SECTION.
WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
LINKAGE SECTION.

PROCEDURE DIVISION.
DISPLAY "Hello World".
STOP RUN.

But this wasn't meant to be a test of Google skills!

What's your best shot at 'hello world' in an obscure language?

google rules again, unfortunately

Fill yer boots here…

IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
PROGRAM-ID. HelloWorld.
AUTHOR. Fabritius.

ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
CONFIGURATION SECTION.
INPUT-OUTPUT SECTION.

DATA DIVISION.
FILE SECTION.
WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
LINKAGE SECTION.

PROCEDURE DIVISION.
DISPLAY "Hello World".
STOP RUN.

I'd have been too embarrassed to post that Khegs.

Sorry, had to Google that myself!

So what are our favourite programming languages?

C# for me… just been doing some VB.Net and I know which I prefer!

I quite like vb.net, but in the asp.net world it doesn't seem that popular compared to c# so I'm going to retrain. Any book recommendations?
Also Linq to Sql, Css, Silverlight, Regular expressions etc? (got to finish asp.net unleashed first, only 1000 pages left to go!)

Never had to use COBOL, fortunately, not being old 😉

It could have been worse though, it could have been this.

DO ,1 <- #13
PLEASE DO ,1 SUB #1 <- #238
DO ,1 SUB #2 <- #108
DO ,1 SUB #3 <- #112
DO ,1 SUB #4 <- #0
DO ,1 SUB #5 <- #64
DO ,1 SUB #6 <- #194
DO ,1 SUB #7 <- #48
PLEASE DO ,1 SUB #8 <- #22
DO ,1 SUB #9 <- #248
DO ,1 SUB #10 <- #168
DO ,1 SUB #11 <- #24
DO ,1 SUB #12 <- #16
DO ,1 SUB #13 <- #162
PLEASE READ OUT ,1
PLEASE GIVE UP


Not sure about favourite programming languages, depends on the task, but for text manipulation, quick and dirty scripts to process data and personal web projects I'll tend to use Perl* (the swiss-army chainsaw of programming languages). I use a lot of php as well, mainly for work stuff, but I can spend ages criticising it. 😉

Python is good, especially for building small lightweight gui apps.

C# is ok, lots of handy libraries, though I'm as likely to pick C/C++ or java.

* Yes I know badly written Perl can be a nightmare to try and maintain, but that is other people's Perl code 😉

Easier to say what languages I would avoid at all costs, namely VB and Coldfusion, expecially coldfusion, it is a horrible nasty language and I hope it dies soon.

I thought that was your forte, SFB (I am joking, really!)

that thought did cross my mind, though I try to get people to think rather than just confusing them 🙂

But shouldn't workable code be transparent by definition?

in theory perhaps, but not often in practice…

C

PROC do.stuff (CHAN OF SP fs, ts)
SEQ
so.write.string.nl(fs, ts, "Hello World!")
SEQ i = 1 FOR 10
SEQ
so.write.int(fs, ts, i, 0)
so.write.nl(fs, ts)
:

So what are our favourite programming languages?

I mainly write in C at the moment – we do a lot of work on embedded devices. I'm currently coding up a consumer medical device on a microprocessor with 4KB RAM and 120KB Flash. And that's a lot for us 😯

Having said that I also write C#, Java and C++. Plus all the supporting toy languages (Python, PHP, VB, SQL, HTML/CSS etc)

on a microprocessor with 4KB RAM

bloody luxury lad! I used to program an 8051 with just 128 bytes of RAM :o) My current machine has 46,000,000 times as much…

plop_pants – Member
I quite like vb.net, but in the asp.net world it doesn't seem that popular compared to c# so I'm going to retrain. Any book recommendations?
Also Linq to Sql, Css, Silverlight, Regular expressions etc? (got to finish asp.net unleashed first, only 1000 pages left to go!)

C# / VB.Net seems to be split about 60 / 40, so worth doing some of both (I stand to be corrected here) but my recommendations are:

Beginning ASP.Net In C# (and VB.Net)

Professional ASP.Net (both languages) (covers linq and a bit of Silverlight)

Anything by Wrox is worth a look (I have a stack of their books!)

and

Apress seem pretty good

I see your slightly obscure or archaic mainstream languages, and raise you slightly obscure research languages:

!hello.

+!hello : true
<- .println("hello world").

Cookie for the first one to get it…

thanks Julian.
As I'm working towards getting a job in this area is there a core set of
skills that you think would provide an entry into the market? Or am I going to have to spend the next 6 months reading everything just to get a look-in? Being unemployed at the mo I need to get the balance right.

@IA

Any clues?

Hmm, how big a clue that's the question. I'll start with not so helpful one, as if it was easy, the game would be no fun 😉

"!hello" is setting a goal to be achieved…

Of course, by "slightly obscure" it's possibly "very obscure" to folk not in my area of research. So this is likely to be more a test of google skills…

@plop_pants

IM or email me: vdub1992[at]hotmail.co.uk

Happy to chat away from here!

Mmm, Java.

I'm a toy programmer me! PHP 5 mainly. Have recently written a PAM module in C though and might dust off my Java skills just to keep current but really I'm very happy in PHP world.

toolset: php, apache, RHEL, textpad, vim, svn, phpdoc, phing, Zend Framework, MySQL, Oracle, XML, SOAP, XHTML etc..

Oracle, XML, SOAP, XHTML etc..

a programmer using soap ?? Is that allowed ?

a programmer using soap ?? Is that allowed ?

This would be Open Source programmers washing their feet after they've been wearing socks with their sandals.

And yes, I do have three Marins AND a beard (sort of), before you ask…

I left my first job writing assembler when i wrote a cheque in hexadecimal. Honestly, it was about then i decided i maybe needed a holiday.

C is still cool and not bettered for micro-processors IMO.
C++ is … interesting, and requires extreme paranoia to avoid difficult bugs
Java is very good now, if a tad verbose. And I dig Eclipse.
Perl is a personal fav. A Swiss army knife.
Ada good, if verbose
Python is nice to structure and read
VisualBasic – (feel sick)

Haven't tried any others

No-one guessed yet? And I could have chosen more obscure languages, pah, amateurs 😉