Finally: Brainfuck is ready for the mainframe/enterprise

Posted by flok on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @01:43PM
from the self-post dept.

After a long hack-session I finally got a Brainfuck interpreter written in COBOL working (https://www.vanheusden.com/misc/blog/2016-05-19_brainfuck_cobol_intp.php ). So you can finally run your Brainfuck programs on your COBOL enabled mainframe! (e.g. ibm esa/390, tandem nonstop, etc) If you don't want an interpreted code, you can use this program https://www.vanheusden.com/misc/blog/2016-05-19_brainfuck_cobol_compiler.php instead which translates/compiles the Brainfuck code to COBOL code.

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Re:Finally: Brainfuck is ready for the mainframe/enterprise by amorroxic on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @04:14PM (#11765112)

In a most ideal world I'd end up contributing to this project while listening to serialised Mozart played on didgeridoo.

I would be so happy.

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Re:Finally: Brainfuck is ready for the mainframe/enterprise by lgunsch on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @04:47PM (#11765327)

Everyone else can now go and put away their toy languages!

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Re:Finally: Brainfuck is ready for the mainframe/enterprise by lgunsch on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @06:27PM (#11766028)

Why is a straightforward joke being down voted? Obviously I'm not really saying to not use any other languages. The wiki page on Brainfuck even says itself "is not intended for practical use, but to challenge and amuse programmers."

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Re:Finally: Brainfuck is ready for the mainframe/enterprise by lgunsch on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @03:46PM (#11772518)

Okay, I just discovered all jokes are bad on HN. It would have been nice to discover that sooner.

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Re:Finally: Brainfuck is ready for the mainframe/enterprise by brianwawok on Thursday May 26, 2016 @04:05PM (#11781055)

Bunch of grumps here.

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Re:Finally: Brainfuck is ready for the mainframe/enterprise by Pica_soO on Friday May 27, 2016 @05:36AM (#11784871)

Because somebody thinks its hilarious- and builds a converter from a "serious" language.

And is a stand alone guy in some forsaken company- and converts it all to brainfuck. And leaves and takes the "real" source along. And the next guy finds it years later and has to do with it.

Lots of "jokes" become running gags, and the running gags - long after being funny, have some poor guy having to keep those gags going. The poor guys venture on Hacker News in there spare time - and try to cause a abortion to the next generation of Franken-Frames being cobbled together.

Random Trivia: The guy who wrote brainfuck also contributed to the sauerbraten cube2 game engine.

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Re:Finally: Brainfuck is ready for the mainframe/enterprise by yolesaber on Friday May 27, 2016 @09:19AM (#11785793)

My startup is using Intercal on Interstates http://www.intercaloninterstates.org/

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Re:Finally: Brainfuck is ready for the mainframe/enterprise by bbcbasic on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @02:30AM (#11768010)

Some call it Brainfuck. I call it RISC

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Re:Finally: Brainfuck is ready for the mainframe/enterprise by askafriend on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @01:54PM (#11763878)

Now this is real hackery.

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Re:Finally: Brainfuck is ready for the mainframe/enterprise by araxhiel on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @02:43PM (#11764385)

Man! That is just awesome, and badass! My respects!

[Orson Welles clapping GIF]

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Re:Finally: Brainfuck is ready for the mainframe/enterprise by victorhugo31337 on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @01:50PM (#11763828)

Nice!

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