Console.WriteLine("Hello World"); - this is how you'd typically write code to display “Hello World” in a conventional programming language like C#. Now contrast that with the keyboard-mash syntax of Malbolge: (=<\$9]7<5Y3%2#q)M-kG&eC{/'W"v-uBogsa@1!rEhA[4NtPpLp`.

Named after the eighth circle of hell in Dante's "Inferno," Malbolge lives up to its diabolical namesake by tormenting those brave or foolhardy enough to decipher its secrets. Created in 1998 as a kind of joke among cryptographers, Malbolge's complexity is such that it took two years before the first program was successfully created - not by human effort, but by a beam search algorithm devised by Andrew Cooke and implemented in Lisp.

Despite its convoluted design, Malbolge has attracted a niche following of programmers who relish the challenge it presents.