"Brainfuck Language", is this a hoax or a real programming language ?

[salvin francis]

Spending sometime on the net, i came across this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck
At first, the name itself was a turn off, but as I read it, it seemed to be a valid language, [Though I didnt understand most of it]
What do you guys think ?

[salvin francis]

and it claims this to be "hello world"

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[Jesper de Jong]

The Wikipedia says it:

It is a Turing tarpit, designed to challenge and amuse programmers, and is not suitable for practical use.

It's not a serious programming language that anyone uses.

[Ulf Dittmer]

Also check out Whitespace.

[salvin francis]

WhteSpace !!


Btw here is another Extremely interesting one : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chef_(programming_language)
and the respective hello world:

Hello World Souffle.
 
 Ingredients.
 72 g haricot beans
 101 eggs
 108 g lard
 111 cups oil
 32 zucchinis
 119 ml water
 114 g red salmon
 100 g dijon mustard
 33 potatoes
 
 Method.
 Put potatoes into the mixing bowl.
 Put dijon mustard into the mixing bowl.
 Put lard into the mixing bowl.
 Put red salmon into the mixing bowl.
 Put oil into the mixing bowl.
 Put water into the mixing bowl.
 Put zucchinis into the mixing bowl.
 Put oil into the mixing bowl.
 Put lard into the mixing bowl.
 Put lard into the mixing bowl.
 Put eggs into the mixing bowl.
 Put haricot beans into the mixing bowl.
 Liquefy contents of the mixing bowl.
 Pour contents of the mixing bowl into the baking dish.
 
 Serves 1.

[salvin francis]

this is the one in Chef for Fibonacci : http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/chef_fib.html

Design principles:

Program recipes should not only generate valid output, but be easy to prepare and delicious.

Recipes may appeal to cooks with different budgets.

Recipes will be metric, but may use traditional cooking measures such as cups and tablespoons