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11th Annual ICFP Contest Begins

Posted by timothy on from the prime-year-for-it dept.

Matthew Fluet writes "The 11th Annual ICFP Programming Contest begins July 11 (12:00 Noon PDT) and runs through July 14 (12:00 Noon PDT). As in the previous ten editions, this is your chance to show that your favorite programming language (or your team) is better than all others! In addition to prize money, the winner's programming language is declared the 'programming language of choice for discriminating hackers.' Contestants may use any programming language (or combination of languages) to show their skill. How will your favorite language fare?"

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  1. Re:Malbolge by david.given · · Score: 3, Interesting

    wow that is amazing. I can't believe this is the first time I'm hearing about Malbolge. I used to collect odd programming languages. I would have thought that Funge-98 was the craziest. Now, I'm not so sure. Malbolge seems like its more of a difficult to exploit buffer overflow than a language. Then again, maybe thats the point.

    Unfortunately people have done cryptanalysis of Malebolge and have managed to find an, er, exploit: it's now possible to actually write programs for it on purpose, rather than having to do brute-force searches of the program space until you find one that matches. See this link for details. If you're really brave, here is an implementation of 99 green bottles in Malebolge. (You may be interested to note that the program is roughly twice as long as its output...)