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How much patience is necessary for something like this? If I could start a slow clap, I would.

• andyn 17y ago
  I think you could write some sort of simple language that would get expanded into BF. e.g. +6 -> ++++++
  • silentbicycle 17y ago
    You could compile to brainfuck, treating it as a very simple virtual machine. It's just simplified to the point of being incredibly inefficient, like factoring Church-encoded numbers with Prolog's unification, rather than using its built-in mathematical primitives. (Whether the bf compiler was actually written or just generated by compiling to bf is neither here nor there.)
    • tetha 17y ago
      in fact, there is work on a gcc-backend which outputs brainfuck (name's gcc-bf)