Brainfuck is an esoteric programming language created by the Swiss student Urban Müller and known for its extreme minimalism. It has only eight commands, each a single character, which move a pointer along an array of memory cells and increment, decrement, read or print the value in the current cell, plus a pair of brackets for loops. Despite this, it is Turing complete, meaning that in principle it can compute anything any other language can. Müller wanted a language with the smallest possible compiler, and his compiler for the Amiga was under three hundred bytes. Programs written in it are famously unreadable, and the language inspired many other esoteric languages and is used as a curiosity and a puzzle.
Before and after
- 1993Founding of TV Azteca
- 1993Founding of National Bank of Slovakia
- 1993Creation of Lua
- 1993Origins of Czech First League
- 1993Creation of Brainfuck
- 1993Discovery of Altamura Man
- 1993Origins of Czech Extraliga
- 1993The bright blue LED is invented
- 7 January 1993Kravica attack
More in Science & technology
- 1964Discovery of rutherfordium
- 29 October 1969Invention of Internet
- 18 February 1970Discovery of dubnium
- July 1974Discovery of seaborgium
- 1976Discovery of bohrium
- 1984Discovery of hassium
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