[seqfan] Re: Primes in Malbolge

[Stephen Makdisi]

It has been a while since I looked at Malbolge, but from what I remember
one generally has to write another program in order to generate Malbolge
source code. The transpiling would definitely work though, and with a
higher language to BF transpiler, one could write "any program" in
malbolge. That seems like an awful lot of work, and far and away from
the original intent. 

Stephen

[2016-09-22 09:38] Charles Greathouse <charles.greathouse at case.edu>
>
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> My understanding is that Malbolge is best thought of as a cryptosystem, and
> apparently Lou Scheffer has decent cryptanalysis. A quick search shows that
> he went further than I remembered, and has instructions (though not
> explicit code) on a BF interpreter
> http://www.lscheffer.com/malbolge.shtml
> which would solve that task by transpiling, e.g.,
> https://sange.fi/esoteric/brainfuck/bf-source/prog/PRIME.BF
> 
> Charles Greathouse
> Case Western Reserve University
> 
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 7:53 AM, <hv at crypt.org> wrote:
> 
> > I suspect not - I infer from the details in the articles on Wikipedia
> > and Esolangs [1] that only a handful of programs have ever been written,
> > and that that isn't one of them.
> >
> > I've explored a few esoteric languages, and learnt a bit by attempting to
> > write code in some of them, but Malbolge does not feel like it would be
> > particularly profitable to spend time on.
> >
> > Hugo
> >
> > [1] http://esolangs.org/
> >
> > Alonso Del Arte <alonso.delarte at gmail.com> wrote:
> > :Has anyone ever written a program to compute prime numbers (A000040) in
> > :Malbolge? I know, it's a tall order, considering that the creator of that
> > :hellish computer programming language couldn't even get it to say "Hello
> > :world."
> > :
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