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... "They point to how security researchers hated Visual Basic 6 binaries due to the complexity of reverse engineering the software, the presence of a Lua obfuscation layer in the 2012 Flame malware, and the Grip virus, which contained a Brainfuck interpreter coded in Assembly to generate its keycodes, as examples."

It can only be a matter of time until malware authors stumble across CLC-INTERCAL. And then we'll ALL be sorry!

theregister.com/2025/03/29/mal

The Register · Malware in Lisp? Now you're just being cruelBy Thomas Claburn

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Implementing BF in assembler would be easier than getting BF to do anything useful at all. 😄

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@CppGuy Look, if you can write a CLC-INTERCAL compiler in INTERCAL (as indeed CLC did, back in the day), then ANYTHING is possible …

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@cstross
I have sins to atone for, but there are sins and there are sins.

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@CppGuy @cstross There are sins, there are _sins_ and there are abominations against nature that cannot be attoned for.

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@tknarr @cstross
... And then there's Brainfuck.