#116 The Smallest Possible Programming Language
Brainf*** is a really small Turing-complete programming language.
Kopec Explains Software · David Kopec, Rebecca Kopec
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Show Notes
How small can a programming language be and still be a programming language? In order for a programming language to be able to compute the same sorts of problems as any other language it must be Turing-complete. Amazingly, there is a programming language that has just eight commands, represented by eight single symbols, that is Turing-complete. In this episode we describe what it means to be Turing-complete and how this tiny language does it.
Show Notes
- Episode 11: What is a Programming Language?
- Brainf... via Wikipedia
- Programming Languages: Principles and Paradigms by Allen Tucker and Robert Noonan via Amazon
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