The Siren Song of Little Languages

Re:The Siren Song of Little Languages by machinestops on Monday January 13, 2025 @04:26AM (#42681615)

I struggle to take such an article seriously when it cites Brainfuck as an example. A common use of Brainfuck isn't to write programs, but rather to prove that it is possible to write programs. This isn't exactly comparable with small Lisps or Forth.

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Re:The Siren Song of Little Languages by rausr on Monday January 13, 2025 @06:04AM (#42682211)

I work in the same building as Urban Mueller (creator of BF). He told me the point of BF was to implement a compiler ;)

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Re:The Siren Song of Little Languages by InDubioProRubio on Monday January 13, 2025 @06:32AM (#42682371)

He told me its there to import geometry from standard formats into marching cubes and then octrees.

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Re:The Siren Song of Little Languages by jhonsrid on Monday January 13, 2025 @09:53AM (#42684012)

You can write a program that takes BF code as input and outputs valid C source that would execute it in less than 20 lines of well formatted ANSI C using nothing more than putchar, getchar, while, pointer inc/dec and dereference, so I can imagine a full compiler for it would be super simple too.

(Though I bet an optimising compiler would be a _little_ more complicated) ;)

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