On Thursday 02 March 2006 04:46, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
Package: libacme-brainfck-perl
Provides: libacme-brainfuck-perl
Ah, and back to the time when some words where magic and caused burn marks
on the paper around the ink.
I never have and probably never will see why some people find 'f*ck'
On Wed, 1 Mar 2006 12:47:59 -0600, Steve Greenland
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On 01-Mar-06, 08:57 (CST), Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Scripsit Panu Kalliokoski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* License : BSD-like
Description : Brainfuck compiler
What is this useful for?
Scripsit Tim Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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.
Perhaps. But (1) brainfuck isn't that; it has twice as many basic
instructions as combinatory lambda
(I'm not on -devel, so I constructed this reply by hand.)
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
On 02-Mar-06, 05:31 (CST), Panu Kalliokoski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I only saw the last one of the flame wars you mention, and it didn't
even cross my mind that this ITP would gather similar attention.
Then I apologize for implying otherwise.
Note that the package name does not have any
Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Scripsit Panu Kalliokoski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* License : BSD-like
Description : Brainfuck compiler
What is this useful for?
Curling braincells... I once wrote a Emacs Lisp implementation[1]
of a BrainFuck compiler, its probably the
On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 10:43:54 +0100
Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Scripsit Tim Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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.
Perhaps. But (1)
Scripsit Andrea Bolognani [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BrainFuck is not just a proof-of-concept or a toy language. You can write
actual programs using it.
Seriously, there is even a complete textual adventure written in BrainFuck:
http://jonripley.com/i-fiction/games/LostKingdomBF.html
Do you claim
Scripsit Panu Kalliokoski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I only saw the last one of the flame wars you mention, and it didn't
even cross my mind that this ITP would gather similar attention.
For the record, I don't care any which way about the name [1]; my
reaction would have been the same if it was called
On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 19:58:12 +0100
Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you claim that this is _not_ just a proof-of-concept item?
No. It's fully usable and enjoinable.
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Severity: wishlist
Owner: Panu Kalliokoski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* Package name: bfc
Version : 1.0
Upstream Author : Panu Kalliokoski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://sange.fi/~atehwa/bf/
* License : BSD-like
Description : Brainfuck compiler
Scripsit Panu Kalliokoski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* License : BSD-like
Description : Brainfuck compiler
What is this useful for?
--
Henning Makholm Ambiguous cases are defined as those for which the
compiler being used finds a legitimate interpretation
On 01-Mar-06, 08:57 (CST), Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Scripsit Panu Kalliokoski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* License : BSD-like
Description : Brainfuck compiler
What is this useful for?
Annoying people who think that children are irrevocably damaged by
reading the
On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 12:47 -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
On 01-Mar-06, 08:57 (CST), Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Scripsit Panu Kalliokoski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* License : BSD-like
Description : Brainfuck compiler
What is this useful for?
Annoying
It's An Eight-Instruction Turing-Complete Programming Language.
See:
http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/bf/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck
I suggest a better description for the ITP so people can see that the
purpose of the package is not necessarily only to offend (if at all).
-Tim
On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 12:59:12 -0600
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Besides that?
BrainFuck is Everyone's Favourite Programming Language (TM).
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On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 12:59:12PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
Besides that?
It is essentially a toy, or a demonstration tool... depends on your
point of view. BrainFuck, from what I can tell, has been around for
years and is a Turing-complete programming language consisting of
only eight
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].
And given the reaction to porn-get and bitchx and
whatever-the-stripping-cpu-monitor-was-called , I tend to assume[2]
Scripsit The Fungi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 12:59:12PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
Besides that?
It is essentially a toy, or a demonstration tool... depends on your
point of view.
Why should we use mirror bandwidth on either?
BrainFuck, from what I can tell, has been around
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 03:57:17PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote:
Scripsit Panu Kalliokoski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* License : BSD-like
Description : Brainfuck compiler
What is this useful for?
Pretty much the same thing that libacme-brainfck-perl is useful for.
Cheers,
aj
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
On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Steve Greenland wrote:
On 01-Mar-06, 13:05 (CST), Tim Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
Tim Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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.
Anyway, since when are toys somehow not allowed in Debian?!?
Brainfuck seems
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