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Re: Brainfuck Enterprise Solutions

#74

Who in their right mind would choose brainfuck for enterprise solutions, over befunge?

You can't discount the need to keep your hiring pipeline full to replace the people whose RSUs have cliffed. Befunge, like Rust, is impossible to hire for, so nobody uses it, which means nobody has experience, which means it's impossible to hire for, so it's a bad idea to use it. BrainFuck has been around for decades and its problems can be avoided by just hiring sufficiently-talented developers.

Being the only true 2-dimensional language, Befunge only needs the square root of the lines of code to build an equivalent program to puny 1-dimensional programs like Brainfuck or C++.

Stop trying to hire 10X engineers. Befunge applications are built by true X² engineers.

Re: Brainfuck Enterprise Solutions

#77
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…

I realized after reading my reply I made a lot of ortho and grammar errors, sorry for that, can't edit it now.
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