Underrated, make this into a submission?

Port a mips emulator for it so you can run Linux on it?

Good name for the CPU

This is awesome and I binged your videos immediately.

Please create more content.

Well that is incredible

I feel like “what is idiomatic brainfuck” is a deeply philosophical question striking right to the heart of our craft…

You can embed BF directly in your perl code!

https://metacpan.org/pod/Acme::Brainfuck

There's an Ook! interpreter too but it's more limited.

https://metacpan.org/pod/Language::Ook

If only they'd used the f-word instead of Ook...

Seriously, why ? :-)

The usual censor for it is b****fuck, that should do it.

Of course this post is written in jest but fck-nat is useful enough that adult organizations adopt it despite the name, as an actual example of “profane but useful software that jumps over the wall of corporate use”. It helps that the specific use case it’s built for is something you usually only run into when you have corporate level spend on AWS

You could use my (rather silly) extension called "pbrain," which adds procedures to brainfuck.

https://parkscomputing.com/page/pbrain

In hindsight, I think it's aptly named.

(EDIT: Gosh, I really need to update the .NET compiler to .NET 8.)

Maybe BE. Brain Excellence.

Also, do you have a PowerPoint explaining how to setup a Center of Excellence?

There is a language called brainfudge which is effectively an alias of brainfuck for this exact reason

you'll find lots of "brainfudge" interpreters on github

Reminds me of how theres a Buttplug project that has what is considered the fastest bluetooth open source library. Problem is people cannot use it because importing “Buttplug IO” or whatever raises some eyebrows. Theres even been attempts at using it in DoD projects.

Far be it from programmargamers to name things, just to annoy legal and other cruft layers. Now onwards to the new Bloat meeting (its the new scrum), where we produce spam-tickets and increase productivity by sacrificing hours to nil-meetings.

Let’s hope not.

I like the name choice of the CPU from this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41622325

Brain-fsck.

May I suggest Squick instead?

Maybe brainfried?

bullfit ?

How about bellyfuck? or brainfart?

Imagine changing Python's name, that doesn't make sense, and as you said, it's a very small problem that should be ignored.

There’s a good episode of the Mindscape podcast (hosted by Sean Carroll) interviewing one of the authors (Blaise Agüera y Arcas) about the paper:

https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2024/08/19/286-...

You can't discount the need to keep your hiring pipeline full to replace the people whose RSUs have cliffed.

Befunge, like Rust, is impossible to hire for, so nobody uses it, which means nobody has experience, which means it's impossible to hire for, so it's a bad idea to use it. BrainFuck has been around for decades and its problems can be avoided by just hiring sufficiently-talented developers.

True.

Befunge has real lofty ideals, not just a miser goal of being hard to parse by humans:

> Befunge, with the goal of being as difficult to compile as possible

Honestly, the smart enterprises are using Malbolge.

You mean your company needs to COME FROM Intercal?

I've had much success integrating Brainfuck in a legacy C++ codebase. As the team adopts modern idiomatic C++ patterns and practices, we found Brainfuck via https://github.com/tfc/cpp_template_meta_brainfuck_interpret... to be a natural and seamless fit for C++ template metaprogramming.

Buyer beware – as a a legacy mainframe user of INTERCAL (IBM VM/370), steer cleer of mainframe migration services that promise migration from INTERCAL to BF on commodity cloud on a fixed time scale – they use AI tools but don't do robust testing. Much better to stay on IBM but write new modules in enterprise z/INTERCAL, even if it's not the best developer environment.

I think POC||GTFO carries on some of the spirit of those times.

Somebody didn’t read the style guide, especially 1.1.2.

https://github.com/bf-enterprise-solutions/bf.style

We're half way there: https://gist.github.com/rqu1/e4770cd8bd60706384c7c1b79f010a8...

The "enterprise solutions" part?

Thanks to the "write once run anywhere" philosophy of the language, and the design choices in the OS (e.g. containerization), it is easely porable to any CPU.

Safe bet for enterprise users.

The secret sauce is:

> **************

> PASTE YOUR EXTENSIONS HERE:

> **************

I admit I was slightly disappointed that it looked more like a primitive shell than the advertised OS. "Baby steps" though!

Won't that be confused with B[1]?

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_(programming_language)

The Brainfuck extension should obviously be .fmb, for "fuck my brain".

(Shameless plug) With Brainfuccuccino[1], you can embed your brainfuck programs right into Java, so you get the "best" of both worlds ;-)

[1] https://github.com/coobird/brainfuccuccino

posting codegolf'd brainfuck on stackexchange was a pivotable moment in my life

i was zen

If you mean "inscrutable to mere mortals and drives one to madness when heard aloud", then yes. Yes it is.

"We had a chance to meet this young man, and boy that's just a straight shooter with upper management written all over him.."

Of course not, those companies are using SageMaker anyways. Come on!

"So this week, we're introducing a general-purpose tool-building factory factory factory, so that all of your different tool factory factories can be produced by a single, unified factory. The factory factory factory will produce only the tool factory factories that you actually need, and each of those factory factories will produce a single factory based on your custom tool specifications. The final set of tools that emerge from this process will be the ideal tools for your particular project. You'll have exactly* the hammer you need, and exactly the right tape measure for your task, all at the press of a button (though you may also have to deploy a few configuration files to make it all work according to your expectations)."*

I take your point - it does have a saving grace, after all.

What are you talking about?

People who get uptight about swearing irritate me. I understand getting upset about racial slurs or other actually loaded language, but getting upset about the word "fuck" but not "sex" is just making up things to be upset about.

> Brainfuck is an example of a so-called Turing tarpit: it can be used to write any program, but it is not practical to do so, because it provides so little abstraction that the programs get very long or complicated. While Brainfuck is fully Turing complete, it is not intended for practical use, but to challenge and amuse programmers.[3][4] Brainfuck requires one to break commands into microscopic steps.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck

Brainfuck isn't exploiting the shock value of swearing--it's accurately describing the experience of using it.

The High Court of Australia ruled that swearing isn't by itself offensive. So I s'pose you're shit out of luck if you cross our border.

You have to keep in mind that brainfuck has been invented by a Swiss student. There are 2 clues. Student is obvious. Being Swiss might not be but is one.

People not living in an english speaking country have a different appreciation of swearing in english as they are exposed to it differently: appart from our english classes at school we learn and hear english mostly in songs, movies, TV shows, even modern literature. We are pretty much inundates by the f-word which makes it more an innocent word than in britain and us english.

A few days ago I was doing some cleaning in the house. Usually I rather put music but this time I chose a tv shows instead. Bad idea, it makes you much slower. Bottom line is I chose action-drama Banshee randomly. It seems they literally say fuck or motherfucking every 30 seconds!

So my advice would be: before complaining of people living abroad and using the f-word, maybe you guys should clean your house and stop putting the f-word in every fucking piece of media you sell all over the motherfucking world.

Also swearing can be cultural. For example wear I live in Spain swearing is part of the normal language. Grandparents all say words like coño and de puta madre all day long and nobody seems to blink when their 4 year old kids do the same.

Yes. That's true in most cases but let them youn uns have some fun will ya!

You, yourself were in fact the byproduct of one.

Conversely, people who get all pearl clutchy about their poor, sensitive wittle ears when I swear irritate the shit out of me. We're not in elementary school, adults say fuck and that's ok.

Well shit, seems like there’s no talking to you about Brainfuck then.

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