[PD] Pd *is* a programming language!

[padawan12]

Excellent, you proved Pd Turing complete and improved its interface in one hack.
j/k :)

 

On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 17:25:02 +0100
Claude Heiland-Allen <claudiusmaximus at goto10.org> wrote:

> Hi everybody,
> 
> Remember those long discussions about whether Pd is a programming 
> language or (an inferior) something else?
> 
> Well, to settle the matter, I made a brainf*ck[1] interpreter in vanilla 
> Pd using no externals[2].
> 
> Now you can be sure that you can compute anything computable[3] using 
> your favourite multimedia tool!
> 
> As Pd's string handling sucks, output is a printout of the decimal value 
> of each character.
> 
> Keyboard input is through [key], so you enter characters fairly 
> naturally (wait for the yellow signal before you type each character). 
> There is no way to indicate end-of-file.
> 
> 
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck
> 
> [2] As Pd's string handling sucks, you need to convert your .bf source 
> code into decimal form before loading it.  A simple C program 
> "decdump.c" to do this is attached.
> 
> [3] Provided it can be computed within the memory available, which in 
> this interpreter is 1,000,000 cells each being an integer from 0 to 255 
> inclusive.
> 
> 
> Claude
> -- 
> http://claudiusmaximus.goto10.org
> 
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