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Re: Brainfuck Enterprise Solutions

#131
Brainfuck is largely a joke for most developers, but in certain kinds of research it is taken very seriously due to its ease of implementation.

I think this is probably the most interesting paper involving it:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.19108

> In this paper we take a step towards understanding how self-replicators arise by studying several computational substrates based on various simple programming languages and machine instruction sets.

Re: Brainfuck Enterprise Solutions

#134

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?

The usual censor for it is b****fuck, that should do it.

This made me laugh _really_ loudly, thank you

Re: Brainfuck Enterprise Solutions

#135

Brainfuck is largely a joke for most developers, but in certain kinds of research it is taken very seriously due to its ease of implementation. I think this is probably the most interesting paper involving it: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.19108 > In this paper we take a step towards understanding how self-replicators arise by studying several computational substrates based on various simple programming languages and ma…

There’s a good episode of the Mindscape podcast (hosted by Sean Carroll) interviewing one of the authors (Blaise Agüera y Arcas) about the paper:

https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2024/08/19/286-...

Re: Brainfuck Enterprise Solutions

#138

You are laughing now- but suffering and misery indicate pervyRomance for management. And what would cause more suffering then adopting this language as new enterprise standard. The joke was on you, all along..

"We had a chance to meet this young man, and boy that's just a straight shooter with upper management written all over him.."
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