[TriLUG] The new Sonney in town!

[prhodes at vdsinc.com]

>> "Hello World" in Befunge:
>>
>>                  v
>> >v"Hello world!"0<
>> ,:
>> ^_25*,@
>>
>>
>> Ok, that looks like they took the WORST features from each of:  C++,
>> Java, and Perl, mixed them up with a dash of Eiffel, a sprinkling of
>> Modula-3, and some wart of frog, and called it "Befunge."

> Oh, no, it's much more than that.  It's an N-dimensional stack-based
> language, so execution is not just linear left to right.  The program
> begins at the 'v' on the first line (pointing down), then moves
> execution to the left "<", and so on.

Incredibly, I had actually heard of Befunge before.  I didn't know that
much about it though. Nor do I recall
where or why I had read anything about it.  I'm thinking I must have seen
it mentioned in a /. article or something.


> It's one of the scaries things I'd ever seen, until I went to
> http://purists.org/esoteric/ and found a ton of other freaky ones.
> (Check out Java2k, I was crying I was laughing so hard...)

I'll definitely check that out!

TTYL,

Phillip Rhodes
Application Designer
Voice Data Solutions
919-571-4300 x225
prhodes at vdsinc.com

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