On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 8:18 PM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, comex wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Benjamin Schultz <ke...@verizon.net> wrote: >>> Does there exist a decent Perl to Brainfuck parser / compiler? (There >>> probably does, as nobody in their right mind writes their code directly in >>> Brainfuck.) >> >> Doesn't compiling into Brainfuck sort of defeat the purpose? > > When I first did the bf for the bf golf, I tried writing it in c to > compile to bf, and it honestly turned out to be easier to write > directly in bf, though it absolutely needed an array debugger/dumper/ > bf IDE.
A LLVM brainfuck backend would be a fun project, but if you're trying to get a low filesize or-- worse-- fight another program, instruction by instruction, for resources, don't even think about it. :p
