v0id

I'm currently making an interpreter for Brainfuck.
I started out with first just make the interpreter, and then tested it with different programs I found online. Now I'm making some GUI for it. All the work is being done in C and the Win32 api.
But imo your project sounds nice.

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Arevos

I looked it up on Wikipedia, and Befunge's syntax is exactly the reason why I think that gryfang's choice of language is remarkably wise.

Stop thinking about the language from a user's perspective. Think about how easy it is for a computer to interpret. All of the commands in Befunge are denoted by single characters, so the look-ahead is exactly one character. Hell, you don't even need a parser generator for that, a case statement would do!

The only potential point of difficulty in Befunge is that it's a two dimensional language, but this isn't much of a sticking point.

A Pascal or BASIC interpreter would be at the very least twenty times the size. Indeed, I wouldn't be surprised if it were a hundredfold larger, as you have to deal with all sorts of scoping and memory management crap. Befunge doesn't have any of those problems.

Conventional languages, with the possible exception of Lisp, usually have very involved and complex syntaxes. I would certainly not recommend using such languages as a starting point.

Marvin

Wikipeda also states "The language was originally created by Chris Pressey in 1993 as an attempt to devise a language which is as hard to compile as humanly possible"

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Arevos

The key word being compile. gryfang is creating an interpreter. When dealing with potentially self-modifying code, there's a big difference in complexity between a compiler and a interpreter.

Marvin

Well screw you arevos

I dont give a fuck what you think. Your not all knowing. I think your wrong on this one. If your new to interpreters then keep it simple.

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DaWei

Cogent reply. No fallacious reasoning in THAT enlightening argument.

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v0id

Marvin, Arevos are right.
Gryfang wants to make a interpreter, not a compiler.
It's two different things. Compiler make it to machinecode or something else, when a interpreter is 'testing' your code.

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Marvin

Yeah, i said i dont give a FUCK. In English that means i dont care.

One last note: i am the same person as nemesis. so Marvin == nemesis.

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v0id

Then I say: I wouldn't give a fuck if you were Bush.

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Marvin

If i were Bush i would stop listening to the american jews who seem to control US foreign policy at the moment.

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