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Brainfuck en · PROPN

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Etymology

From brain + fuck, implying that it is confusing to use.

Meanings

1. A minimalist esoteric programming language, created for amusement, in which every basic machine instruction is represented by a single character.
   • Some eccentric languages are structurally just as simple, but intentionally made awfully hard to understand — like the notorious languages Brainfuck […] or Malbolge. 2005, G. Braziller, Inc., edited by Morten Søndergaard, Perttu Rastas, and Björn Norberg, Get real: real time + art + theory + practice + history, →ISBN, page 48:
   • Brainfuck is an archetypically minimalist language, providing merely eight commands, each represented by a single character. These commands operate on an array of 30000 byte cells initialized to 0. 2008, Matthew Fuller, Software Studies: A Lexicon, →ISBN, page 269:
   • Brainfuck language is the gotoless programming language, and it has a implicit byte pointer which is free to move […] In addition, Brainfuck defines only eight-instructions associated with the pointer[…] 2010, Miguel Soriano, Sihan Qing, Javier López, Information and Communications Security: 12th International Conference, Icics 2010, Barcelona, Spain, December 15-17, 2010 Proceedings, →ISBN, page 345:

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