Many of you will have heard of the esoteric programming language Brainf**k_. It’s an example language that’s nearly impossible to use because it’s too simple. It’s basically a Turing computer in code – you can essentially put characters into an array, read them out, increment, decrement, and branch. The rest is up to you. Good luck!
What could be worse? Befunge, a language that parses code not just left-to-right or top-to-bottom, but in any direction depending on the use of ^, v, >, and <. (We love the way that GOTO 10 looks like a garden path in the example.)
Uniting the two, [rsheldiii] brings us BrainFunge, a Brainf**k_ interpreter written in Befunge. And surprisingly, the resulting write-up sheds enough light on both of the esoteric programming languages that they make a little bit of sense. If you try to read along, you’ll definitely be helped out by Esolang Park, which was new to us, and accommodates the non-traditional parsing while displaying the contents of the stack.
If you get a taste of the esoteric, and you find that you’d like a little more, we have a great survey of some of the oddest for you. After cutting your teeth on Befunge, for example, we bet you’ll be ready for Piet.
The language is properly called Brainfuck, as always for those who are allowed in their jurisdiction to use any word without strange obfuscations.
Hackaday has written about Brainfuck, and tags exist in obfuscated and unobfuscated form.
Some do strange things.
I’m sometimes writing in a forum where clips of robots shooting humans are tolerated, but no 4 letter words, because there might be kids around! Am I really supposed to understand THAT?
An american forum, for sure.
Shoot!
“It’s an example language that’s nearly impossible to use because it’s too simple. ”
I’m sure Zachtronics could make a game out of it.
I prefer Hexagony, as it adds another pair of possible directions, and interesting branch logic.
Intel MCS BASIC-52 64-bit ports to 1 x86 2 ARM 3 RISC-V platforms using gcc c compile transparent portable c machine code transferred to Boeing hardware engineers’ one page nodules compliant to defeat obfuscated buggy malware vulnerable c/c++ with giga/tera byte memory technologies.?
Albert Gore willing, of course.
Quick, somebody port Doom to BrainFunge
Amzon’s robots hacked audio 11/12/22.
https://www.prosefights2.org/irp2020/p112022/amazonhack.mp3
c/c++ 911?