- From: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@expway.fr>
- Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 16:24:34 +0100
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: Shelby Moore <shelby@coolpage.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Ian Hickson wrote: > On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Shelby Moore wrote: >>>So is the brainfuck programming language [1], but that doesn't tell you >>>ANYTHING about how useful the language is. >> >>Being obscene is certainly dramatic, but it doesn't prove any thing >>regarding whether the Turing complete capabilities can perform >>complex examples such as the one you present above. > > My apologies, it was certainly not my intent to offend or be obscene. > Brainfuck is the name of the programming language, there isn't much I > can do about that. Brianfuck is a useful example to bring up in such arguments, and an often used one, unfortunately it does tend to lead people to be (at least mildly) shocked. A similarly "interesting" language is Ook[1] which is also Turing complete and has a fascinating syntax. It certainly makes your average "Hello World"[2] a lot more entertaining. Implementations are available (that I know of) in Perl, Python, Ruby, and for .Net. [1]http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/ook.html [2]http://bluesorcerer.net/esoteric/hello.ook -- Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@expway.fr> Research Engineer, Expway http://expway.fr/ 7FC0 6F5F D864 EFB8 08CE 8E74 58E6 D5DB 4889 2488
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