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Sorry, but I must be missing what's so interesting. Great, you wrote a Brainfuck (why do people insist in censoring themselves?!) in Scala. You didn't even imp

• dindresto 14y ago
  Exactly. It's not that interesting. But why should I care if others don't care either? Anyhow, I decided for 2013 that I'll submit anything I write related to programming on HN.
• evincarofautumn 14y ago
  Agreed, more or less. Brainfuck implementations are not generally interesting, except as proofs of Turing-completeness for other esoteric languages. And there are many more esolangs out there with much wilder and more beautiful semantics than Brainfuck. Implementing those can be a really valuable learning experience. Also, if we’re bringing Scala into it, I would be more interested to see a type-level implementation.
  • jrabone 14y ago
    If we're bringing Scala into it, I'd like to see a Scala compiler in Brainfuck. That might keep the esolang people quiet for a bit :)
  • rolux 14y ago
    > And there are many more esolangs out there with much wilder and more beautiful semantics than Brainfuck. Implementing those can be a really valuable learning experience. Like, for example, INTERCAL with threading via `comefrom`: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~malcolmr/intercal/threaded.html http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~malcolmr/intercal/threaded.html
    • evincarofautumn 14y ago
      Lazy K[1] and Funciton[2] are two of my personal favourites. [1]: http://homepages.cwi.nl/~tromp/cl/lazy-k.html http://homepages.cwi.nl/~tromp/cl/lazy-k.html [2]: http://esolangs.org/wiki/Funciton http://esolangs.org/wiki/Funciton