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[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Just about the only good reason for Brainfuck.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

@frezik I mean that's literally it's purpose. being a minimal turing complete language.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

I could be wrong, but I don't think the creators envisioned it being a basis for easily proving the Turing Completeness of other languages, but it did. They were more thinking "how can I have the most fucked up language in the smallest package and still be Turning Complete?"

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