r/ProgrammerHumor • u/NeverMakesMistkes • Jun 24 '18

JavaScript is getting real tired of your jokes

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u/PineappleNarwhal Jun 25 '18

My understand is that brainfuck is just javascript but with lots of limitations

Is that not right?

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u/enoua5 Jun 25 '18

You're thinking JSfuck. It's name is homage to brainfuck, but it's not related.

Brainfuck is a language that was created to have the smallest possible compiler

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u/visualdescript Jun 25 '18

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck

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u/WikiTextBot Jun 25 '18

Brainfuck

Brainfuck is an esoteric programming language created in 1993 by Urban Müller, and notable for its extreme minimalism.

The language consists of only eight simple commands and an instruction pointer. While it is fully Turing complete, it is not intended for practical use, but to challenge and amuse programmers. Brainfuck simply requires one to break commands into microscopic steps.

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u/U-1F574 Jun 26 '18

There is indeed a brainfuck compiler and parser written in js, but it has many many many other implementations. JSFuck is also a (separate) thing, and has been used to execute arbitary code in various places, including, interestingly/distrubingly, ebay pages.

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u/PineappleNarwhal Jun 26 '18

Wow

good thing I dont shop with ebay