#116 The Smallest Possible Programming Language

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How small can a programming language be and still be a programming language? In order for a programming language to be able to compute the same sorts of problems as any other language it must be Turing-complete. Amazingly, there is a programming language that has just eight commands, represented by eight single symbols, that is Turing-complete. In this episode we describe what it means to be Turing-complete and how this tiny language does it.

Show Notes

• Episode 11: What is a Programming Language?
• Brainf... via Wikipedia
• Programming Languages: Principles and Paradigms by Allen Tucker and Robert Noonan via Amazon

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