Brainfuck

Also known as Brainf***, Brainf*ck, brainfsck, brainf**k, branflakes, BF, b****fuck, BrainF***

Brainfuck is an esoteric programming language created in 1993 by Swiss student . Designed to be extremely minimalistic, the language consists of only eight simple commands, a data pointer, and an instruction pointer.

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Programming language.name: Brainfuck
Programming language.logo: BrainfuckHelloWorld.png
Programming language.logo caption: HelloWorld command in Brainfuck
Programming language.file_ext: .b, .bf
Programming language.paradigm: Esoteric, imperative, structured
Programming language.released: September 1993
Programming language.designer: Urban Müller
Programming language.typing: Typeless
Programming language.influenced_by: P′′, FALSE
Programming language.influenced: Malbolge

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Official website: brainfuck.org
Image: Hello World Brainfuck.png

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Stack Exchange tag: stackoverflow.com/tags/brainfuck
file extension: bf
inception: 1993-01-01
Commons category: Brainfuck

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History
Language design
Examples
Hello World!
Adding two values
ROT13
Simulation of abiogenesis
See also
Notes
References
External links

Brainfuck is an example of a so-called Turing tarpit: it can be used to write any program, but it is not practical to do so because it provides so little abstraction that the programs get very long or complicated. While Brainfuck is fully Turing-complete, it is not intended for practical use but to challenge and amuse programmers. Brainfuck requires one to break down commands into small and simple instructions.