[HN Gopher] ed.bf: text editor in Brainfuck
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       ed.bf: text editor in Brainfuck
        
       Author : aartaka
       Score  : 67 points
       Date   : 2023-11-27 17:15 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (github.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | Grimburger wrote:
       | I love the proper formatting and explainer comments everywhere.
       | Almost makes it seem normal.
        
         | airstrike wrote:
         | I thought about stealing some of this code but I stopped when I
         | saw the copyright notice
        
           | pjot wrote:
           | The project seems to use the "DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO
           | PUBLIC LICENSE"
        
             | NewJazz wrote:
             | WHAT IF I DO WHAT I DON'T WANT?
             | 
             | Am I then in violation?
        
       | pelagicAustral wrote:
       | I must say, not being Ken Thomson is a real struggle in my
       | career.
        
       | airstrike wrote:
       | "bf-enterprise-solutions" ROFL
        
       | morninglight wrote:
       | We had ChatGTP convert this from brainfuck to forth for
       | readability.
        
       | tayyebi wrote:
       | Well, this is the ed man as u wish:
       | https://tyyi.net/man2html/ed.html
        
       | whartung wrote:
       | The fact that this was done in just 430ish lines of BF really
       | illustrates some of BFs power that may be lost on others.
        
         | ithkuil wrote:
         | It also illustrates the power and simplicity of ed
        
         | AlotOfReading wrote:
         | 430 lines of overly verbose BF to boot. You could delete 1/3rd
         | to 1/2 of them by simple tricks the author hasn't used for
         | readability reasons.
         | 
         | It's not the worst language if you're willing to work within
         | the constraints and frankly, more readable than a lot of C++.
         | My own editor (written many years ago, no meta interpreter) was
         | 113 characters.
        
       | oh_sigh wrote:
       | My company doesn't let us use brainfu*k due to a naughty language
       | filter - has anyone ported this to befunge?
        
         | sgift wrote:
         | Does your company also ban aussies? I've heard swearing is
         | second nature to them.
        
       | kleiba wrote:
       | Jeez, debugging this must have been so much fun.
        
       | nadermx wrote:
       | "Not being Ken Thompson is a struggle every working software
       | engineer has to contend with." Funny. Also brainfuck always is
       | intesting, hard for no other reason.
        
       | sgift wrote:
       | Some people just hate themselves. Really .. that's the only
       | reason for something like this. But props for doing it, you are
       | better hackers (old school variant) than me, bf-enterprise-
       | solutions.
        
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