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Re: Bug#354831: ITP: bfc -- Brainfuck compiler



Scripsit "Tim Olsen" <tolsen718@gmail.com>

> 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 calculus, and (2) the use of toy
languages generally do not depend on having a compiler for them.

-- 
Henning Makholm                             "In my opinion, this child don't
                                       need to have his head shrunk at all."



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