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An IRC bot written in Brainfuck

103 points by mappum 14y ago

tectonic 14y ago
Oh dear god.
- pestaa 14y ago
  Exactly. This `netfuck' code is well documented, though. I'm not even sure which questions I'd want to ask first about the author's relationship with programming.
  - jlgreco 14y ago
    If this is the same SirCmpwn that I am aware of, then I believe his background is in Zilog z80 programming. Getting started with assembly can do strange things to a man. ;)
    - Sir_Cmpwn 14y ago
      I am that SirCmpwn indeed. Also, who's the jerk that took "SirCmpwn" as a username :(
      - mirashii 14y ago
        If you're anything like me, it was you three years ago and you can't remember the password and don't use the associated e-mail address anymore.
      - surement 14y ago
        No such user http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=SirCmpwn http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=SirCmpwn
        Sir_Cmpwn 14y ago
        Huh. It wouldn't let me register it.
        throwaway125 14y ago
        With all lower case it does exist: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sircmpwn http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sircmpwn
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rcgs 14y ago
I realise this is the beginnings of the bot, but I'm surprised at how small it is.
- willvarfar 14y ago
  I'm not pointing out a heinous crime, but it doesn't contain the network code
- cmccabe 14y ago
  That's because Brainfuck is omakase
igul222 14y ago
It would be really cool to make some slightly more usable programming language that compiles to Brainfuck so that mortals could write non-trivial programs in it and impress their friends.
- surement 14y ago
  Or just a program that writes bf programs, like the (apparently only) way people write Malbolge programs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malbolge#Programming_in_Malbolge http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malbolge#Programming_in_Malbolg...
- deleted 14y ago
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- krichman 14y ago
  It's not impressive, though. It's not surprising that someone is able to create a program using a Turing-complete language. It's just surprising that they decided to waste their time with an unreadable one. It's far more impressive to do basically anything else related to programming.
willvarfar 14y ago
/me imagines a IOCCC contest entry that is a non-obfuscated C BF VM. And when run on its own source-code it exposes a message; obfuscation and steganography being much the same thing. And it uses every single BF symbol in the source significantly (no hopping over to a payload thats in a comment or something simple)... I expect someone has already done it!
seanlinehan 14y ago
For the love of all that is holy, why would anybody subject themselves to this torment?
- aw3c2 14y ago
  fun. thinking differently for some days.
- exDM69 14y ago
  Brainfuck is to Turing machines what Lisp is to Lambda calculus or Prolog is to predicate logic. There's enough syntactic sugar to make it a practical programming language that is based on a mathematical theory. Learning it will, arguably, make you a better programmer. This seems to be like a conveniently sized practice project, a little I/O with the real world with a simple computational task that's fun to write.
  - StavrosK 14y ago
    Brainfuck looks like it is a Turing machine, only you increment/decrement states rather than jumping to them right away.
fosap 14y ago
The node.js equivalent for brainfuck.
billiob 14y ago
I wrote one in brainfuck++ some years ago: https://github.com/billiob/bfb https://github.com/billiob/bfb Brainfuck++ adds opening/closing/reading/writing to files/sockets with 6 new operators. The whole code in a single file is there: https://github.com/billiob/bfb/blob/master/code.bfpp https://github.com/billiob/bfb/blob/master/code.bfpp
- phyalow 14y ago
  You sir have inspired me to learn this monstrosity purely so I too can insert art into my code.
  - bvdbijl 14y ago
    If you like code looking like art, you should look at Piet: http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet.html http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet.html It's art that's code
    - shocks 14y ago
      Oh wow, this is really really really cool. Now I'm thinking of awesome programs to hide in any gfx work I do...
    - thwest 14y ago
      In the sample programs there is even a brainfuck interpreter! http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet/samples.html http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet/samples.html
- easy_rider 14y ago
  Wait, wat?
binarydreams 14y ago
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jordanb 14y ago
I had an idea once to make a brainfuck web framework as an April fool's day joke along the lines of Cobol on Cogs. The trick, I figured, would be to make a simple basic-like language, and actually write the framework in that, and then make a compiler that translated it to brainfuck. I wonder if that's what this guy did. :)
italics 14y ago
Jesus christ. O.o;; This is the first I've seen the language... I think if I wrote stuff at work in brainfuck they would think I was just wasting time. XD

103 points by mappum 14y ago

tectonic 14y ago

Oh dear god.

pestaa 14y ago
Exactly. This `netfuck' code is well documented, though. I'm not even sure which questions I'd want to ask first about the author's relationship with programming.
- jlgreco 14y ago
  If this is the same SirCmpwn that I am aware of, then I believe his background is in Zilog z80 programming. Getting started with assembly can do strange things to a man. ;)
  - Sir_Cmpwn 14y ago
    I am that SirCmpwn indeed. Also, who's the jerk that took "SirCmpwn" as a username :(
    - mirashii 14y ago
      If you're anything like me, it was you three years ago and you can't remember the password and don't use the associated e-mail address anymore.
    - surement 14y ago
      No such user http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=SirCmpwn http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=SirCmpwn
      - Sir_Cmpwn 14y ago
        Huh. It wouldn't let me register it.
      - throwaway125 14y ago
        With all lower case it does exist: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sircmpwn http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sircmpwn

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rcgs 14y ago

I realise this is the beginnings of the bot, but I'm surprised at how small it is.

willvarfar 14y ago
I'm not pointing out a heinous crime, but it doesn't contain the network code
cmccabe 14y ago
That's because Brainfuck is omakase

igul222 14y ago

It would be really cool to make some slightly more usable programming language that compiles to Brainfuck so that mortals could write non-trivial programs in it and impress their friends.

surement 14y ago
Or just a program that writes bf programs, like the (apparently only) way people write Malbolge programs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malbolge#Programming_in_Malbolge http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malbolge#Programming_in_Malbolg...
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krichman 14y ago
It's not impressive, though. It's not surprising that someone is able to create a program using a Turing-complete language. It's just surprising that they decided to waste their time with an unreadable one. It's far more impressive to do basically anything else related to programming.

willvarfar 14y ago

/me imagines a IOCCC contest entry that is a non-obfuscated C BF VM. And when run on its own source-code it exposes a message; obfuscation and steganography being much the same thing. And it uses every single BF symbol in the source significantly (no hopping over to a payload thats in a comment or something simple)... I expect someone has already done it!

seanlinehan 14y ago

For the love of all that is holy, why would anybody subject themselves to this torment?

aw3c2 14y ago
fun. thinking differently for some days.
exDM69 14y ago
Brainfuck is to Turing machines what Lisp is to Lambda calculus or Prolog is to predicate logic. There's enough syntactic sugar to make it a practical programming language that is based on a mathematical theory. Learning it will, arguably, make you a better programmer. This seems to be like a conveniently sized practice project, a little I/O with the real world with a simple computational task that's fun to write.
- StavrosK 14y ago
  Brainfuck looks like it is a Turing machine, only you increment/decrement states rather than jumping to them right away.

fosap 14y ago

The node.js equivalent for brainfuck.

billiob 14y ago

I wrote one in brainfuck++ some years ago: https://github.com/billiob/bfb https://github.com/billiob/bfb Brainfuck++ adds opening/closing/reading/writing to files/sockets with 6 new operators. The whole code in a single file is there: https://github.com/billiob/bfb/blob/master/code.bfpp https://github.com/billiob/bfb/blob/master/code.bfpp

phyalow 14y ago
You sir have inspired me to learn this monstrosity purely so I too can insert art into my code.
- bvdbijl 14y ago
  If you like code looking like art, you should look at Piet: http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet.html http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet.html It's art that's code
  - shocks 14y ago
    Oh wow, this is really really really cool. Now I'm thinking of awesome programs to hide in any gfx work I do...
  - thwest 14y ago
    In the sample programs there is even a brainfuck interpreter! http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet/samples.html http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet/samples.html
easy_rider 14y ago
Wait, wat?

binarydreams 14y ago

...

deleted 14y ago

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jordanb 14y ago

I had an idea once to make a brainfuck web framework as an April fool's day joke along the lines of Cobol on Cogs. The trick, I figured, would be to make a simple basic-like language, and actually write the framework in that, and then make a compiler that translated it to brainfuck. I wonder if that's what this guy did. :)

italics 14y ago

Jesus christ. O.o;; This is the first I've seen the language... I think if I wrote stuff at work in brainfuck they would think I was just wasting time. XD