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Comment by shoo

When you say pointer heavy, just how heavy is that pointer?

In traditional brainfuck, a single < suffices to move The Pointer one cell to the left.

For a dialect of brainfuck where The Pointer is 3x as heavy as is traditional, you'd have to apply 3x the effort, i.e. <<<, in order to move one cell to the left.

Cursed bogocomputing idea of the day: a variant of brainfuck where The Pointer is physically simulated, with mass & momentum. < & > apply impulses. The Pointer continues to move across The Array with momentum after you apply an impulse.

parent shoo 19 days ago

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