by krylon on 12/5/2023, 4:15:48 PM
by lynx23 on 12/5/2023, 2:38:07 PM
The most awesome random submission I ever received was a BrainFuck compiler written in BrainFuck, by hand. Short story: I wrote a bf compiler in Emacs Lisp many many years ago. As a small testcase, I included a BrainFuck compiler in BrainFuck, which was written by a guy who wrote a C-alike to BrainFuck compiler so that he could implement his BF compiler in BF. That was a strange piece of code, about 6 pages of plain BF. A few years later, suddenly, I have this mail in my INBOX: A norwegian guy sent me a BF compiler in BF, written by hand. He was unsatisfied by the existing BF compiler, as it was generated. His implementation was about 6 lines of BF code. And it was a magnitude faster. Hats off to that guy!
by toast0 on 12/5/2023, 3:43:21 PM
Just a helpful resume tip. If you work on something in Brainfuck, put it on your resume as BF. And don't mention the name of your multi-threaded BF environment.
by jraph on 12/5/2023, 2:04:07 PM
This is what I've seen others qualify as "quite cursed".
by planede on 12/5/2023, 3:46:08 PM
Postscript is actually surprisingly approachable. It's quite easy to implement logo-like "turtle graphics" and draw fractals in it.
by nevir on 12/5/2023, 2:26:31 PM
The description is glorious:
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A Brainfuck interpreter written in PostScript
This program aims at being accurate, readable and minimal.
by kevindamm on 12/5/2023, 4:05:27 PM
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by Log_out_ on 12/5/2023, 7:55:55 PM
The inventor of brain fuck also gave us the Sauerbraten engine with its octree geometry storage as maps.
by segmondy on 12/6/2023, 2:58:50 AM
Now, do the inverse and implement postscript in BF
by cjaybo on 12/5/2023, 2:07:58 PM
Some people just love pain it seems
by fouc on 12/5/2023, 8:02:03 PM
Code looks good! Postscript is a pretty sweet alternative to forth.
by leonheld on 12/5/2023, 2:07:41 PM
I hate it in the best way possible.
by dxtrous on 12/5/2023, 2:08:26 PM
Would it work on a printer?
by bryancoxwell on 12/5/2023, 3:28:32 PM
What is wrong with you people
This has got to be peak <something>. I don't know what exactly, but it's something. Self-inflicted torment and/or eccentric fountain of joy. Probably both.
I cannot, for the life of me, see myself investing the time needed into something so futile. But I love that there are people out there who do this kind of thing out of pure joy.