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Apparently, I run a rather clean shop. Whodathunkit. And probably most of the cussing comes from my posts on brainfuck.
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I mentioned the esoteric programming language brainfuck a little while back. It consists of 8 operations and was created in order to make the smallest compiler in the world (I think the current best is 174 bytes). I was reading a post over on Good Math, Bad Math that defines arithmetic in terms of sets. Pretty basic if you’ve done anything with set theory, but Mark has a clear way of explaining things so I usually try to read all of his posts. I’ve been playing catch-up today. It struck me immediately how closely the set form that Mark describes matches the syntax/logical structure of brainfuck. So I decided to play around a little. Read on for more.
Either the coolest or the stupidest programming language in the world, brainfuck was designed by Urban Müller in order to create the world’s smallest compiler of a Turing-complete programming language. Originally his compiler was 240 bytes in size, but he reportedly got it down to about 200 bytes. Others have gotten it below that. The language consists of only 8 operations, which I will go into after the jump.
