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

[Robert de Bath]

On Sun, 9 Nov 2014, Joachim Breitner wrote:

> 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.
Ah, that explains it, it's not supposed to be a standalone interpreter.

I would say that it's not really useful on it's own ('useful' as a
programmer's toy that is.)  as it can't run anthing that uses the input
command or takes more than a few million BF instructions. I suspect it's
specifically designed as the reverse of a dumb text to BF converter.

ie: the most complicated it expects is something like:

+++++++++++[>+++>+++++++>++++++++++>+++++++++>+<<<<<-]>>---.>+.>--.++.+
++++.+.<--.<<-.>--------.>+++++.>----.++++.<++.------.>----.<++++.>>-.

So, yes, it can go as a standalone package, but it may be reasonable to
merge it into the lambdabot package as a contrib or something.

> Greetings,
> Joachim

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Rob.                          (Robert de Bath <robert$ @ debath.co.uk>)
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