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Re: Brainfuck Enterprise Solutions

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post #22

Wow, would love to adopt this on our infra! Just one teensy problem - legal's a bit worried about the name. Would you consider renaming BF? Maybe Brainfriend?

Imagine changing Python's name, that doesn't make sense, and as you said, it's a very small problem that should be ignored.

Sure. Let's call it pyfuck. I'm sure that won't raise any eyebrows.

Brainfuck is a fine name due to the nature of the language.

Re: Brainfuck Enterprise Solutions

#62
post #12

Irritating when people try to draw our attention to otherwise banal things by exploiting the shock value of swearing. People that swear liberally in everyday conversation irritate me intensely.

You have to keep in mind that brainfuck has been invented by a Swiss student. There are 2 clues. Student is obvious. Being Swiss might not be but is one.

People not living in an english speaking country have a different appreciation of swearing in english as they are exposed to it differently: appart from our english classes at school we learn and hear english mostly in songs, movies, TV shows, even modern literature. We are pretty much inundates by the f-word which makes it more an innocent word than in britain and us english.

A few days ago I was doing some cleaning in the house. Usually I rather put music but this time I chose a tv shows instead. Bad idea, it makes you much slower. Bottom line is I chose action-drama Banshee randomly. It seems they literally say fuck or motherfucking every 30 seconds!

So my advice would be: before complaining of people living abroad and using the f-word, maybe you guys should clean your house and stop putting the f-word in every fucking piece of media you sell all over the motherfucking world.

Also swearing can be cultural. For example wear I live in Spain swearing is part of the normal language. Grandparents all say words like coño and de puta madre all day long and nobody seems to blink when their 4 year old kids do the same.

Re: Brainfuck Enterprise Solutions

#63

Wow, would love to adopt this on our infra! Just one teensy problem - legal's a bit worried about the name. Would you consider renaming BF? Maybe Brainfriend?

There is a language called brainfudge which is effectively an alias of brainfuck for this exact reason

you'll find lots of "brainfudge" interpreters on github

Re: Brainfuck Enterprise Solutions

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One of obvious hindsights here is to use the extension `.bf` instead of `.b`, which was previously suggested by daniel b cristofani, a prolific Brainfuck programmer [1]. `.bf` is also used for Befunge and `.b` removes any such confusion.

[1] https://brainfuck.org/brainfuck.html

Re: Brainfuck Enterprise Solutions

#66

One of obvious hindsights here is to use the extension `.bf` instead of `.b`, which was previously suggested by daniel b cristofani, a prolific Brainfuck programmer [1]. `.bf` is also used for Befunge and `.b` removes any such confusion. [1] https://brainfuck.org/brainfuck.html

Won't that be confused with B[1]?

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_(programming_language)

Re: Brainfuck Enterprise Solutions

#67

Wow, would love to adopt this on our infra! Just one teensy problem - legal's a bit worried about the name. Would you consider renaming BF? Maybe Brainfriend?

Far be it from programmargamers to name things, just to annoy legal and other cruft layers. Now onwards to the new Bloat meeting (its the new scrum), where we produce spam-tickets and increase productivity by sacrificing hours to nil-meetings.

Re: Brainfuck Enterprise Solutions

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post #66

One of obvious hindsights here is to use the extension `.bf` instead of `.b`, which was previously suggested by daniel b cristofani, a prolific Brainfuck programmer [1]. `.bf` is also used for Befunge and `.b` removes any such confusion. [1] https://brainfuck.org/brainfuck.html

Won't that be confused with B[1]? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_(programming_language)

Sure, but the number of B code currently in circulation should be miniscule enough to reuse that extension. (And the confusion between Brainfuck and Befunge will be much higher anyway.)
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