++++++++++[>+++++++> ++++++++++>+++>+<<<< -]>++.>+.+++++++..++ +.>++.<<++++++++++++ +++.>.+++.——.— —–.>+.>.
… or Hello World! to those of you who aren’t versed in the intricacies of the computer programming language brainfuck.
Brainfuck is an eight-instruction Turing-complete programming language. Anyone who’s not impressed by that may as well just leave now; or skip to the next post. “Any machine that can act as a universal Turing machine can, in principle, perform any calculation that any other computer is capable of”1. So this means that I could reprogram the Neoco site using brainfuck.. an interesting proposition.
So what does it all mean? Is there any point? Possibly not – although the language can operate on “the smallest compiler ever”2.
You can find out more about this, and other defunct coding languages, from this interesting article.
Links
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck
2. http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/bf/
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