[QUOTE=ixfd64;324425]Try porting Prime95 to [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malbolge]Malbolge[/url].[/QUOTE]

George effectively did.

How close to the "metal" would you like to get?

[QUOTE=chalsall;324428]George effectively did.

How close to the "metal" would you like to get?[/QUOTE]

No no, try porting the thousands of lines of C into Malbolge. (Admittedly there are many thousands [i]more[/i] lines of assembly than C, but assembly is still easier to read than Malbolge (which is in turn easier to read than machine code :smile:)).

[QUOTE=Dubslow;324445]No no, try porting the thousands of lines of C into Malbolge[/QUOTE]

That's what compilers are for.

Never send a human to do a machine's job. Unless, of course, the human is better.

[QUOTE=chalsall;324447]That's what compilers are for.[/QUOTE]
Has anyone written one?

[QUOTE=Dubslow;324449]Has anyone written one?[/QUOTE]

Are you familiar with YACC?

[QUOTE=chalsall;324452]Are you familiar with YACC?[/QUOTE]

Sure, but what about the backend? What YACC et al. produce can parse the source code into some suitably powerful and abstract representation (syntax tree or whatever) from which typical assembly or other code can be written, but I dare you to write something which can produce Malbolge code.

Keep in mind that the "Hello World!" program was literally [URL="http://www.acooke.org/malbolge.html"]discovered by a brute force attack[/URL], and how to do loops in it is still not very well understood (though someone was able to write a [URL="http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-malbolge-995.html"]99 bottles of beer[/URL] program).

[QUOTE=Dubslow;324459]... but I dare you to write something which can produce Malbolge code.[/QUOTE]

I was (trying) to make a joke...

I have better things to do with my time then write a compiler for Malbolge. :smile:

[QUOTE=Dubslow;324449]Has anyone written one?[/QUOTE]

I think you just did, both after the 'any' and immediately preceding the question mark.

[QUOTE=ewmayer;324523]I think you just did, both after the 'any' and immediately preceding the question mark.[/QUOTE]

Very funny!!! :smile:

[QUOTE=chalsall;324528]Very funny!!! :smile:[/QUOTE]

That's 'cause being Austrian, not German, I can have a sense of humor about these things, no national pride being at stake.