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Angry programmers noise getting louder and louder (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

@jackpot @KittyCat implementing a brainfuck interpreter for it is a useful method

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Just about the only good reason for Brainfuck.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

@frezik I mean that's literally it's purpose. being a minimal turing complete language.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

I could be wrong, but I don't think the creators envisioned it being a basis for easily proving the Turing Completeness of other languages, but it did. They were more thinking "how can I have the most fucked up language in the smallest package and still be Turning Complete?"