This Brainfuck interpreter project is inspired by a task I encountered during my time at ALX, which sparked the interest in esoteric programming languages. Brainfuck, a minimalist, Turing complete language, has always been a fascinating challenge for programmers.
Brainfuck is an esoteric programming language created by Urban Müller in 1993.
It is characterized by its minimalistic and cryptic syntax, consisting of only
eight commands: >, <, +, -, ., ,, [, and ]. Despite its simplicity, Brainfuck
is Turing complete, meaning it can perform any computation that any other
programming language can, given enough time and memory.
In Brainfuck, you work with a one-dimensional array of memory cells, a data pointer that points to the current memory cell, and input and output streams that are often connected to the keyboard and a monitor using ASCII character encoding. The language operates through a set of commands, each represented by a single character.
To run this Brainfuck interpreter, you will need a C compiler such as GCC. If you don't have one installed, you can download it from https://gcc.gnu.org/.
Follow these steps to build the Brainfuck interpreter:
- Clone this repository to your local machine:
git clone https://github.com/MungaSoftwiz/bf_esolang_interpreter.git
- Navigate to the project directory:
cd bf_esolang_interpreter/interpreter
- Compile the source code:
gcc -Wall -Werror -Wextra -pedantic -std=gnu89 *.c -o bfrun
You can run the brainfuck programs using the interpreter as follows:
./bfrun <your_program.bf>
To use the interpreter, execute it from the command line with the following options:
./bfrun [output_option] `
[output_option] (Optional): Use the -n flag to specify that the output should be treated as integers rather than characters.
Execute a Brainfuck program in character mode:
./bfrun hello_world.bf
Execute a Brainfuck program in integer mode:
./bfrun -n fibonacci.bf