Brainfuck is an esoteric programming language created in 1993 by Urban Müller. Notable for its extreme minimalism, the language consists of only eight simple commands, a data pointer and an instruction pointer.
While it is fully Turing complete, it is not intended for practical use, but to challenge and amuse programmers. Brainfuck simply requires one to break commands into microscopic steps. The language's name is a reference to the slang term brainfuck, which refers to things so complicated or unusual that they exceed the limits of one's understanding.
Earf_ck is primarily an Audio-based language that compiles to Brainfuck programming language. It is also able to map a given Brainfuck program into its audio version.
The mapping between the Brainfuck commands and the notes are given below:
> = Right shift = E5
< = Left shift = D5
+ = Increment = G5
- = Decrement = F5
. = Output = A5
, = Input = B5
[ = Loop start = C5
] = Loop end = C6
This was developed purely for fun, but this might have practical applications.
Maybe.
We want to introduce more variations in tone & pitch, note durations, instrumentation, etc., which would allow us to create a more robust set of instructions that might possibly be easier to use than one that is based on Brainfuck, which would be more intuitive and easier to learn for the average programmer.
Yes.