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#116 The Smallest Possible Programming Language

Kopec Explains Software

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Brain F: A Programming Language With a Bad Word in It

Urban Mueller created brain F in 1993 as a way of seeing how small he could build a programming language with. His initial compiler, was just 296 bytes of assembly language. Developing an interpreter for this language is often done in the classroom to learn about compilers and interpreters.

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