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#116 The Smallest Possible Programming Language

Kopec Explains Software

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The 8 Commands in a Turing Machine

In the original implementation, you have 30,000 cells. That's just like the cells in a Turing machine. Each of those cells can hold one 8-bit value. You write programs in brain F by writing out these symbols many, many, many times. While it's only a few symbols, only those eight symbols, it's still pretty hard to read.

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