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TrollScript, an esoteric dialect of Brainfuck.

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Re: TrollScript, an esoteric dialect of Brainfuck.

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Post by xnxn »

lkrubner wrote: post #8
carterparks wrote: post #4

I can't understand why anyone would choose to use this language. Clearly it is unreadable and I highly doubt this scales. Can somebody give me a good reason for using this on my Facebook clone instead of a more mature language such as PHP, Python or Java? Also, I heard somebody was developing a web framework, Trolls under Bridges. Has anybody heard about this?

I don't think this is a language people use in real life. It's more for testing. When I went for a job interview at Alexander Interactive http://www.alexanderinteractive.com/ one of the tests they gave me was to write a short bit of code in Brainfuck to reverse a string. The string they gave me was "Hello World". I was allowed to look at the Wikipedia page regarding Brainfuck. They had an interpreter running, into wh…

My friend, I believe you've missed the tongue-in-cheek nature of the parent comment (and, in fact, that of Brainfuck itself).

Re: TrollScript, an esoteric dialect of Brainfuck.

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Post by [deleted] »

carterparks wrote: post #4

I can't understand why anyone would choose to use this language. Clearly it is unreadable and I highly doubt this scales. Can somebody give me a good reason for using this on my Facebook clone instead of a more mature language such as PHP, Python or Java? Also, I heard somebody was developing a web framework, Trolls under Bridges. Has anybody heard about this?

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Re: TrollScript, an esoteric dialect of Brainfuck.

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Post by burgerbrain »

lukejduncan wrote: post #9
lkrubner wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think this is a language people use in real life. It's more for testing. When I went for a job interview at Alexander Interactive http://www.alexanderinteractive.com/ one of the tests they gave me was to write a short bit of code in Brainfuck to reverse a string. The string they gave me was "Hello World". I was allowed to look at the Wikipedia page regarding Brainfuck. They had an interpreter running, into wh…

Sounds like either they were messing with you; you are messing with us; or Alexander Interactive doesn't respect their applicants

Impossible, or seemingly impossible, interview questions are actually quite useful. It can be quite informative to see how the applicant response to such a situation, and what their "Oh shit, wasn't expecting this" emergency problem solving techniques are.

Re: TrollScript, an esoteric dialect of Brainfuck.

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Post by brodie »

tombell wrote: post #5
carterparks wrote: post #4

I can't understand why anyone would choose to use this language. Clearly it is unreadable and I highly doubt this scales. Can somebody give me a good reason for using this on my Facebook clone instead of a more mature language such as PHP, Python or Java? Also, I heard somebody was developing a web framework, Trolls under Bridges. Has anybody heard about this?

PHP, Python and Java don't have a 'lol' operator!

There's Like, Python, which is arguably even more readable than plain Python! http://staringispolite.com/likepython/

Re: TrollScript, an esoteric dialect of Brainfuck.

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Post by ashleymoran »

carterparks wrote: post #4

I can't understand why anyone would choose to use this language. Clearly it is unreadable and I highly doubt this scales. Can somebody give me a good reason for using this on my Facebook clone instead of a more mature language such as PHP, Python or Java? Also, I heard somebody was developing a web framework, Trolls under Bridges. Has anybody heard about this?

I think this is a case of premature optimisation. Trolls under Bridges is struggling to hit v1.0 due to the limited memory capacity of trolls, but someone is hard at work on a Node.js implementation of the interpreter. This will allow spawning a new worker process, or "troglodyte", for each request, and will be totally webscale (there will be no unnecessary trolling for events).

In addition, there's also a JVM port of TrollScript in the works, which will add a static type system to the language for troll-safety. This should alleviate any concerns that the language would be unmaintainable for large systems. JTrollScript will also have type inference to maintain the terseness of the original language.

Re: TrollScript, an esoteric dialect of Brainfuck.

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Post by _3ex7 »

ashleymoran wrote: post #16
carterparks wrote: post #4

I can't understand why anyone would choose to use this language. Clearly it is unreadable and I highly doubt this scales. Can somebody give me a good reason for using this on my Facebook clone instead of a more mature language such as PHP, Python or Java? Also, I heard somebody was developing a web framework, Trolls under Bridges. Has anybody heard about this?

I think this is a case of premature optimisation. Trolls under Bridges is struggling to hit v1.0 due to the limited memory capacity of trolls, but someone is hard at work on a Node.js implementation of the interpreter. This will allow spawning a new worker process, or "troglodyte", for each request, and will be totally webscale (there will be no unnecessary trolling for events). In addition, there's also a JVM port o…

Re: Node.js implementation

my buddy has been hacking on this and he says the benefit of being able to troll on the server the same way you troll the client is a huge benefit.

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