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Is this a late April Fools' joke? Your compiler for an esoteric programming language; "the design goal [for which] was to create a language which was difficult
by ghostly_s 10y ago
Is this a late April Fools' joke? Your compiler for an esoteric programming language; "the design goal [for which] was to create a language which was difficult to compile"[1], is business-critical?
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Befunge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Befunge
- cwyers 10y agoNot just business-critical, apparently it's a competitive advantage, such that he wants others to not be able to take advantage of it.
- nickpeterson 10y agoThe goal is to reduce everything. Complexity is uncertainty, at some point we all throw up our hands and let the chips fall. Every modern language compiles down to insane amounts of code. There is simply no way it's all correct, even at the compiler level. The legion of developers looking into it doesn't give me comfort either, because the size means it has to be partitioned at some point. Competitive edges are essential in the modern information economy. This Bowling Alley succeeds or fails based on my own wits.