[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#768883: Bug#768883: Impossible to run Prime.b

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,


Am Sonntag, den 09.11.2014, 20:53 +0000 schrieb Robert de Bath:
> Package: hsbrainfuck
> Version: 0.1-6
> 
> The original brainfuck distribution written by Urban Müller in 1993 has a 
> few example programs in it one of these is a prime number generator.
> 
> I would expect a brainfuck interpreter to be able to run this code 
> hsbrainfuck cannot!
> 
> I would expect a reasonable brainfuck interpreter to get to 255 in less 
> than twenty seconds. A good one will be subsecond.
> 
> Download:       http://aminet.net/dev/lang/brainfuck-2.lha
> Readme:         http://aminet.net/dev/lang/brainfuck-2.readme
> 
> Extracted copy of prime.b
> https://github.com/rdebath/Brainfuck/raw/a7caec11b54dd960ecf6172b58822997b5208bb9/src/prime.b
> 
> Slightly 'modernised' version of prime.b
> https://github.com/rdebath/Brainfuck/raw/master/testing/Prime.b
> 

thanks for your report. It seems that hsbrainfuck is not maintianed by
upstream any more. Maybe we should just remove it, and patch lambdabot
not to use it.

Greetings,
Joachim


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