Brainfuck is an esoteric programming language created in 1993 by Swiss student Urban Muller, notable for its extreme minimalism: the language consists of only eight simple commands, a data pointer, and an instruction pointer. Despite this minimalism, Brainfuck is Turing-complete, and its design was intended to challenge and amuse programmers by requiring them to express algorithms in the smallest possible compiler, the original compiler by Muller being just 240 bytes.
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First Released SignificanceExtremely minimalistic esoteric language consisting of only eight simple commands 2 Connections
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Source Brainfuck, Wikipedia
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Source Wikidata: Malbolge
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1. Wikidata: Brainfuck
- Wikidata Q244627, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Wikidata Q244627 P571 (inception)
View the Source2. Brainfuck, Wikipedia
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created in 1993 by Swiss student
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the language consists of only eight simple commands,
- In Field: Programming Language Theory, Lead paragraph
In Group: Minimalist and Unconventional Esoteric Languages, Lead
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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