On 3/1/06, Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 01-Mar-06, 13:05 (CST), Tim Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's "An Eight-Instruction Turing-Complete Programming Language." > > Yeah, I know. That doesn't make it "useful"[1]. >
"Useful" is a matter of opinion. A programming language with the minimum number of instructions necessary to be turing-complete and have I/O may be more than a toy for some people. Who knows, maybe you could prove theoretical stuff more easily with it. > And given the reaction to porn-get and bitchx and > whatever-the-stripping-cpu-monitor-was-called , I tend to assume[2] that > the true intent of such an ITP is to instigate yet another 500 post > flame war between the "but what about the children" crew and the "you > can't censor me!" crew. It's all just so damn tiresome. I think we can give the packager the benefit of the doubt given that he maintains an archive of brainf*ck tools. -Tim > > Steve > > [1] Not that I think "useful" is a necessary requirement, and brainfuck > is a neat toy. I personally have no objection to the ITP. > > [2] Countering that is that the package is named "bfc" rather than > "brainfuck", so maybe I'm being unfair, and it's not a deliberate > attempt to rile people. > > -- > Steve Greenland > The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating > system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the > world. -- seen on the net > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >