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[–] LeateWonceslace@reddthat.com 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Which is ironic, because everyone who writes it needs help. I've been thinking about learning it to show off how mentally healthy I am.

[–] leviosa@programming.dev 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

brainfuck is a member of an exclusive club of languages where it's much easier to write a compiler for it than to read a program written in it.

[–] snor10@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

It's exclusive for a reason.

[–] thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why not learn COBOL if you hate yourself?

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

'Cause COBOL might actually get you a job? Esoteric languages can't even do that, so you have to hate yourself worse than COBOL if you're going to learn brainfuck.

"Worse than COBOL." This is a terrifying concept. 😱

[–] hglman@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Brainfuck is dead easy to learn, its incredibly hard to use.