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Ask HN: Why are there no programming books on Brainfuck?

1 points by sirdogealot 12 years ago · 2 comments · 1 min read


Or am I missing the point?

Is it meant to be just a hilariously difficult and esoteric language to learn? Just to say you know it?

albertyw 12 years ago

Brainfuck is just a set of symbols that map to the actions a Turing machine can make. I believe that the symbols themselves were chosen to make it difficult to read and write much like Whitespace. As for Turing machines, I'm sure there are programming books about them but I'm pretty sure their point is about studying computational theory rather than practical use.

anonnyj 12 years ago

Yes, it's just an esoteric language intentionally meant to be difficult.

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