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Re:How to Say (Almost) Everything in a Hundred-Word Language... by js8 on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @12:21AM (#14200406)
Isn't the absence of user-defined abstractions the problem here? You cannot seriously program in BF, but you could program in lambda calculus or combinator logic, and it has just two primitives.

Maybe if there existed BF where you had a macro system for user-defined sequences, it would be possible to program in such a language.

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Re:How to Say (Almost) Everything in a Hundred-Word Language... by klez on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @05:49AM (#14201752)
I tried it once, it was called m4bf[0] and it abused the C preprocessor.

[0] https://github.com/federicoculloca/m4bf

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