RIris·May 16, 2021
And brainfuck is 340 lines: https://github.com/brain-lang/brainfuck/blob/master/brainfuc...
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brainfuck
Brainfuck interpreter companion to the brain programming language
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What it is
Brainfuck interpreter companion to the brain programming language
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Where it is used
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Observed mentions: 2021-03-22 15:45:52 UTC to 2021-05-16 17:20:37 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Mar 22 | 2021-03-22 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-03-29 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mar 29 | 2021-03-29 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-04-05 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 5 | 2021-04-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-04-12 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 12 | 2021-04-12 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-04-19 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 19 | 2021-04-19 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-04-26 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 26 | 2021-04-26 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-05-03 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 3 | 2021-05-03 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-05-10 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 10 | 2021-05-10 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-05-17 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesWhen people say Go is a simple language, they mean that Go, the literal language, is simple. Some people are also claiming that the programs written in Go are simple, that the ecosystem is simple, or that using Go is easy, and those people are probably wrong. However, Go the language is actually simple.
Here is the Go spec: https://golang.org/ref/spec. Firefox's print dialogue tells me it's 105 pages long. You can read the spec in an afternoon and digest most of it.
Here is the ECMAScript 11.0 spec (known as JavaScript to its friends): https://262.ecma-international.org/11.0/. Firefox's print dialogue tells me it's 1181 pages long.
Here's the Java SE 16 spec: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se16/jls16.pdf. It's 844 pages long.
I can't post the C++20 spec because it's an ISO standard and it costs $399AUD for the privilege of readi
Read the rest
ng it, but it's 1853 pages long in PDF form: https://www.iso.org/standard/79358.html.
On a factual level, Go is a simple language, but so is the language Brainfuck, which has a sort-of-spec that's 9 pages long: https://github.com/brain-lang/brainfuck/blob/master/brainfuc.... Simplicity is not ease of use.