Learn to say the names of unusual, joke, and deliberately obscure programming languages correctly.
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How is Brainfuck (minimalist esoteric programming language with just eight commands) correctly pronounced?
Brainfuck is pronounced 'BRAYN-fuk' — 'brain' plus the blunt word it's named after, stress on the first syllable. In a technical interview: "Brainfuck compiled down to just eight single-character instructions, yet it's still Turing complete."
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How is Malbolge (esoteric programming language deliberately designed to be almost impossible to write in) correctly pronounced?
Malbolge is pronounced 'mal-BOHL-jee' — echoing 'Malebolge', the eighth circle of Dante's Inferno it's named after. In a technical interview: "Malbolge was designed to be so confusing that the first working program took two years to produce."
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How is Whitespace (esoteric language whose only meaningful characters are spaces, tabs, and line breaks) correctly pronounced?
Whitespace (the language) is pronounced 'WYT-spays' — exactly like the everyday term for blank space in text. In a technical interview: "Whitespace's source code looked completely blank, since every visible character was just a comment."
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How is LOLCODE (esoteric language whose syntax is modeled on internet cat-meme captions) correctly pronounced?
LOLCODE is pronounced 'LAWL-kohd' — 'LOL' said as a word, plus 'code'. In a technical interview: "LOLCODE printed 'HAI' at the start of every program instead of a conventional header."
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How is Befunge (esoteric language where the program's control flow moves in two dimensions) correctly pronounced?
Befunge is pronounced 'bih-FUNJ' — stress on the second syllable, rhyming with 'sponge'. In a technical interview: "Befunge let the instruction pointer turn ninety degrees whenever it hit an arrow character, so the code ran in loops on the page itself."