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are there any languages that i dont know of that allow you to "open-air" function calls (call functions without parenthesises)

ones i know allow you to do this
* ruby
* perl

i mostly made this interpreter not as like "brainfuck interpreter" but like
"here's a template if you want to write an interpreter for your very own esoteric language that takes commands and uses a memtape like brainfuck"
that's why you can easily just replace chars with your own symbols and rewrite the funcs so they do what you want them to

my favorite part is that instead of using .split("") just to split every character in javascript you can just
.split``

note that if you turn on debug features with the default example program you might just end up freezing your browser because apparently console.log takes a lot of cycles (who knew)

(also it has debug tracing and should mostly respect how most interpreters work (8 bit cells, unsigned, 2^15 long memory))

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terrible *terrible* brainfuck interpreter in javascript i made after looking at random github ones and saying "oh, i can do better than that!" (i did not)
it's 69 lines exactly

ghostbin.com/paste/oc7re

so i'm trying to write a brainfuck interpreter in javascript and i killed it after it was taking a super long time interpreting a rot13 script
i checked the output out of curiosity and now i feel bad computerfairi.es/media/biH6IaO computerfairi.es/media/AIUNiCy

wondering how i got "5633170b30241d02171600001a1f1344" as a google suggestion

the weird part is like you'd expect this behaviour from some shitty dev on most projects right

this person doesn't even work on the project
this person is just a dick??

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this guy also responded to talk about a bug in the general channel with "oh it works perfectly though"
computerfairi.es/media/QW2LJRM

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typing "please" into a console application that doesn't have a cli, only arguments, shouting into the void hoping itll work better

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…It just goes to show how important it is that we reveal the unethical cores behind the shiny interfaces of these people farmers. When people see the surveillance-based business model that lies behind Google’s cute doodles, they do care and they are outraged by what they see. One of our challenges is to force these companies—through regulation—to be as transparent as possible.

Source: Photo was shared by Lee Gamble. Link to original tweet: twitter.com/GambleLee/status/8

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This is a photo of a crashed kiosk advertising the menu and offers at a popular Norwegian pizza restaurant chain. It shows that the kiosk was running facial recognition and basic sentiment analysis on the people looking at it.

Based on the number of people who sent me this on Twitter, it’s clear that people care and are unhappy with corporate surveillance.

The worst bit? Compared to what Google and Facebook do daily and at scale, this is a toy.

mastodon.ar.al/media/OFTGkS78V

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