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SamHughes - Sat Apr 16, 2005 2:50 pm
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Have you been overproductive lately?

Tired of having to deal with the pleasantries of languages like C, with its pointers, functions, and multiple types of arithmetic?

Tried using Brainf*ck but even that didn't quench your thirst for "hard" programming? Tried Malbolge but prefer unquestionable Turing-completeness?

Then maybe Boolf*ck is the programming language for you. "Weaker, less useful, more futile: Boolf*ck," recommends William Sharkey.

http://www.rpi.edu/~hughes/boof/

Here is the "Hello, world!" program:

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;;;+;+;;+;+;
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+;;;;+;+;;+;
;;+;;+;+;+;;
;;;;;+;+;;
+;;;+;+;;;+;
+;;;;+;+;;+;
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Sorry for being a couple of weeks late.

CypherJF - Sat Apr 16, 2005 3:01 pm
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I'm into SCHEME/LISP programming right now

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SamHughes - Sat Apr 16, 2005 3:05 pm
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Try Haskell, a fun functional language. For example, to define a factorial function such that

factorial 0 = 1
factorial n = n * factorial (n -1)

one simply writes the code,

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factorial 0 = 1
factorial n = n * factorial (n - 1)

Cyan~Fire - Sun Apr 17, 2005 11:03 am
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But you didn't keep the compiler small! Gosh, the language is useless now...

SamHughes - Sun Apr 17, 2005 11:11 am
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Compiler?

Not like a 50KB binary as compared to brainf*ck's 200 byte binary is bloated or anything...

Mine GO BOOM - Sun Apr 17, 2005 12:02 pm
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SamHughes wrote:

brainf*ck's

You can say brainfuck. Its ok.

Solo Ace - Sun Apr 17, 2005 12:09 pm
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M*n* G* B**M.

Purge - Sun Apr 17, 2005 12:10 pm
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Solo's a brainf*ck.

SamHughes - Sun Apr 17, 2005 12:28 pm
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Mine GO BOOM wrote:

[..]

You can say brainfuck. Its ok.

I'd rather pander to people who think they're being insulted whenever certain syllables get uttered around them. And after the asterisks make them feel they're safe from having to see four certain letters in a row, then maybe they'll click on the link, and then WHAM, it hits them in large bold green letters!

Anonymous - Sun Apr 17, 2005 6:53 pm
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No thanks, i got perl.

CypherJF - Sun Apr 17, 2005 7:37 pm
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perl is soooo... *shudders*

Bak - Sun Apr 17, 2005 10:04 pm
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sam you go to rpi too?

you're in my year too...

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name: Hughes, Samuel Reid
email: shughes@pgsit.org
curriculum: Mathematics
class: SO
rcsid: hughes

nvm... facebook says you're 2008... some sophmore

SamHughes - Mon Apr 18, 2005 11:44 am
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Wha? I'm a freshman right now.

Bak - Mon Apr 18, 2005 12:07 pm
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did you transfer in credits or take a lot of AP classes?

SamHughes - Mon Apr 18, 2005 2:28 pm
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Oh, yah, 24 AP credits.