[HN Gopher] Weird Ones: 30 years of Brainfuck
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       Weird Ones: 30 years of Brainfuck
        
       Author : Decabytes
       Score  : 28 points
       Date   : 2023-01-12 13:14 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | yardie wrote:
       | 30 years?! Wow, the first time I ever heard of it was 15 years
       | ago. And even then I thought it was some weird university group
       | project that gained internet infamy.
        
       | iamevn wrote:
       | You are Reading the Name of this Esolang[1] is my favorite of the
       | Brainfuck derivative esolangs.
       | 
       | It consists of "0" and "1" characters which map to Brainfuck
       | symbols via a Huffman encoding as well as brackets which wrap a
       | subprogram which are reduced to "1" if the subprogram halts and
       | "0" if the subprogram loops forever. This means that the problem
       | of deciding whether a given string is a valid You are Reading the
       | Name of this Esolang program is undecidable.
       | 
       | [1]:
       | https://esolangs.org/wiki/You_are_Reading_the_Name_of_this_E...
        
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