First cut of a REBOL implementation of a brainf#ck interpretter

[btiffin]

As advertised in the sources; John got this down to 232 bytes of REBOL compressed binary.

http://www.rebol.org/view-script.r?script=bf.r

Get a copy of REBOL at http://rebol.com, install it (well run it, installation not required)

code:

>> do http://www.rebol.org/library/scripts/bf.r >> bf "++++++++++[>+++++++>++++++++++>+++>+<<<<-]>++.>+.+++++++..+++.>++.<<+++++++++++++++.>.+++.------.--------.>+.>." Hello World!

Our Geomol is one proficient programmer; he wrote this in a couple of hours today. It might have bugs in it.

My apologies for not using the proper name in the Subject line of the post, just one of those things for a public forum.

Cheers
Edit; typo

[saltpro15]

you have me interested in learning REBOL btiffin, you know where I might find some good documentation or tut's ?

[btiffin]

Yayy!

The docs I read are a bit out of date, but still good for learning...

http://rebol.com/docs.html
and I use
http://rebol.com/docs/core23/rebolcore.html
http://rebol.com/docs/view-guide.html
but the main docs page also has a link to the core guide as a PDF

And the new REBOL/3 docs are linked from within the alpha binary with
>> docs
and also at http://www.rebol.com/r3/docs/

http://rebol.org is the library of sample and some production ready scripts
and some are documented. I've added a fair boatload of learner docs, all listed at
http://www.rebol.org/cpt-recent-docs.r

Our wiki site is http://rebol.net/wiki

But if you really want "in", I'll get you an account on our by invitation only Altme REBOL world. The software for the Alternate Messaging is at http://altme.com/download.html

Cheers,
Brian

[saltpro15]

Ah thanks man, this looks promising Nothing like diving into a new language

[btiffin]

Umm, be prepared for "now for something completely different".

It can take a while to come to grips with REBOL values and the concept of words just being words until REDUCE is invoked. REBOL truly allows code is data and data is code. That freaks some people out.

REBOL, at a glance, seems that it has very little syntax, but their is a plethora of datatype syntaxes and powerful semantics that coincides with those syntaxes.

And again, the real help is in a closed, by invite only, very focused Altme world. Just ask. The nature of "by invite only" means that the discussions are usually on topic, and Altme is a great little piece of software.

Cheers