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Brainfuck

Brainfuck is an esoteric programming language created in 1993 by Swiss student Urban Müller . Designed to be extremely minimalistic, the language consists of only eight simple commands, a data pointer, and an instruction pointer.

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Designed by
Urban Müller
Filename extensions
.b, .bf
First appeared
September 1993
Paradigm
Esoteric, imperative, structured
Typing discipline
Typeless

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Brainfuck

Nodes41
Edges40
Triples46
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.04878
Components1

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Brainfuck

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related to Notes · 15
Brainfuck → Accordingly, Although Brainfuck, As, Brainfuck's, I/O, In, Incrementing, Loops, Many, Nonetheless, The, These, This, Turing Machine, Turing-complete
related to history · 10
Brainfuck → Amiga, Aminet, FALSE, He, Motorola, Müller, Müller's, Readme, The, Who
related to Language design · 6
Brainfuck → Arithmetic, ASCII, Each, In, Moving, The
related to Hello World! · 4
Brainfuck → ASCII, For, Hello World, The
is a · 2
Brainfuck → esoteric programming language created in 1993 by Swiss student Urban Müller, example of a so-called Turing tarpit
related to Simulation of abiogenesis · 2
Brainfuck → Google, In
Designed by · 1
Brainfuck → Urban Müller
Filename extensions · 1
Brainfuck → .b, .bf
First appeared · 1
Brainfuck → September 1993
Paradigm · 1
Brainfuck → Esoteric, imperative, structured

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language commands cell program pointer programs programming used eight one simple command first müller compiler instruction example practical complicated esoteric

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BrainfuckDesigned byUrban Müller1.00infobox
BrainfuckFilename extensions.b, .bf1.00infobox
BrainfuckFirst appearedSeptember 19931.00infobox
BrainfuckParadigmEsoteric, imperative, structured1.00infobox
BrainfuckTyping disciplineTypeless1.00infobox
BrainfuckWebsitebrainfuck.org1.00infobox
Brainfuckis aesoteric programming language created in 1993 by Swiss student Urban Müller0.90text
Brainfuckis aexample of a so-called Turing tarpit0.90text
C due to its simplicityinstance ofit is quite trivial to write an interpreter for Brainfuck in a more typical language0.80text
Brainfuckrelated to Hello World!The0.60section
Brainfuckrelated to Hello World!Hello World0.60section
Brainfuckrelated to Hello World!ASCII0.60section

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