Such terse languages have a long history -- going back all the way to APL. Current environments, like K and J, continue the legacy but their syntax only include

Such terse languages have a long history -- going back all the way to APL. Current environments, like K and J, continue the legacy but their syntax only includes glyphs from the ASCII character set as opposed to APL's specialized keyboard. The FALSE [1] and F [2] languages are similar to GolfScript, the former being a stack-based language, minimalistic compiler, and inspiration for Brainfuck. The latter is a more recent implementation and purely functional implementation in K. [1]: http://strlen.com/false-language http://strlen.com/false-language [2]: http://www.nsl.com/k/f/f.htm http://www.nsl.com/k/f/f.htm