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Community => Science and Technology => Topic started by: CaseAgainstFaith on February 17, 2012, 11:52:06 am

Title: BrainF**k Computer Code
Post by: CaseAgainstFaith on February 17, 2012, 11:52:06 am: Anyone ever know this programming language existed? Also has anyone programmed in this language before?

BTW this isn't a joke apparently Brainfuck is a real programming language

Brainfuck is an EsotericProgrammingLanguage. As a language, has some very good points:
Fast learning curve
Easy syntax
200 byte compiler
No trouble finding it on google (unlike with ForthLanguage, unless "put forth" and "go forth" are excluded; very few people say brainfuck in normal non-programming web sites)
Hmm you might land on some sort of brain fetish site though
One character per command. Easy to tokenize
Makes a great learning language :)
Code reuse is facilitated by an utter lack of variables and subroutines.
It is TuringComplete, and making a C-to-brainfuck compiler would make your programs very portable in object format.

http://esoteric.sange.fi/brainfuck/ -- an archive of implementations, programs, and IDE's for brainfuck (http://esoteric.sange.fi/brainfuck/)

source of all this - http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?BrainfuckLanguage (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?BrainfuckLanguage)

Just curious on your thoughts since I have never heard of this programming language before.
Title: Re: BrainF**k Computer Code
Post by: Yla on February 17, 2012, 12:56:44 pm: I know Brainfuck. It's a semi-joke - while it's a complete language, only people interested in the challenge and masochists actually write short programs in Brainfuck.
Title: Re: BrainF**k Computer Code
Post by: Sleepy on February 17, 2012, 01:19:27 pm: I've seen Brainfuck. A guy in one of my classes has been playing with it for awhile because, as Yla said, he likes the challenge. But screw that, I'm not enough of a masochist to attempt it.

A standard Hello World example (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck#Examples). That makes me cringe.
Title: Re: BrainF**k Computer Code
Post by: Dan on February 17, 2012, 01:44:54 pm: I always preferred Whitespace (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_%28programming_language%29).
Title: Re: BrainF**k Computer Code
Post by: Yla on February 17, 2012, 02:54:00 pm: I find that list of advantages very funny.

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Fast learning curve
Easy syntax
Snerk.

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200 byte compiler
whose output will utterly paralyze your computer if you try to run more than a Hello World. If you want a serious executable, the compiler needs to optimize the code, which a 200B one won't do.

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Code reuse is facilitated by an utter lack of variables and subroutines.
Ahahahahah.
Title: Re: BrainF**k Computer Code
Post by: Sleepy on February 17, 2012, 03:47:20 pm: Maaaan, I hadn't seen LOLCODE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOLCODE) before. Not sure if amusing or depressing.
Title: Re: BrainF**k Computer Code
Post by: Captain Jack Harkness on February 17, 2012, 05:45:18 pm: Yeah, I've actually heard of this before. Each command is meant to either traverse or manipulate bits to create different ASCII values, if I recall correctly. I didn't click the link, and am just going off of memory.
Title: Re: BrainF**k Computer Code
Post by: Witchyjoshy on February 18, 2012, 01:27:44 am: I think it'd be less confusing to learn to program directly with binary O_o
Title: Re: BrainF**k Computer Code
Post by: Shane for Wax on February 18, 2012, 02:01:54 am: No thank you!
Title: Re: BrainF**k Computer Code
Post by: Distind on February 20, 2012, 06:29:35 am: Quote from: Zachski on February 18, 2012, 01:27:44 am
I think it'd be less confusing to learn to program directly with binary O_o
Having effectively done that, I will say it's true. I'd rather fuck with binary byte codes again than deal with brainfuck.

Mind you I had to write out a couple hundreds of lines of bytecode instructions in notepad, and I'd still rather do that again than brainfuck.