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by anonzzzies 840 days ago
Are they related? I mean same author, but they seem not related besides the Lisp part. Both are pretty impressive feats for someone who is only 19 though.
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Really impressive for any age.

Quotes about Malbolge:

"The day that someone writes, in Malbolge, a program that simply copies its input to it's output, is the day my hair spontaneously turns green. It's the day that elephants are purple and camels fly, and a cow can fit through a needle's eye."

"There's a discussion about whether one can implement sensible loops in Malbolge—it took many years before the first non-terminating one was introduced. A correct 99 Bottles of Beer program, which deals with non-trivial loops and conditions, was not announced for seven years; the first correct one was by Hisashi Iizawa in 2005."

"KamilaLisp, the language described in the book, originates from its previous iterations - v0.1 and MalbolgeLISP."
Ah! I stand corrected, thanks. I opened the github and saw APL, Haskell, Lisp. Interesting as this new effort looks pretty serious while the Malbolge, while an incredible feat, is more a joke I guess.