NationStates Jolt Archive


An interesting programming language

Neo-Anarchists
27-05-2005, 18:52
http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/bf/
http://www.hevanet.com/cristofd/brainfuck/brainfuck.html

Interesting stuff. Horribly inefficient, yet it can do anythnig any of the other languages can do if you spend enough time on it.
Way, way beyond my skills though. Anybody here think they'd be able to do anything with it?
Iztatepopotla
27-05-2005, 18:55
Urban Müller? Isn't he the guy who created the Aminet?
Atheist Blobs
27-05-2005, 19:02
How about the brainfuck variants:
Doublefuck (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublefuck)
Ook (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ook)
COW (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COW_programming_language)

Brainfuck's only purpose is to show how hard programming really can be - just look at this example of how to multiply to numbers (just one operation in most programming languages);
,>,,>++++++++[<------<------>>-]
<<[>[>+>+<<-]>>[<<+>>-]<<<-]
>>>++++++[<++++++++>-],<.>.
Legless Pirates
27-05-2005, 19:04
LOL.... Genious
Tluiko
27-05-2005, 19:12
Seems to be based on Touring machine.
Touring machines really suck. Had to deal with it a school. What is more interesting: To prove that you can do anything with it (anything that can be done by a computer).