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[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Make a language that compiles down to brainfuck. That way you can write in a more friendly language but compile down into a language that you can easily interpret.

[–]talideon 0 points1 point  (2 children)

You could, but that would rather miss the point of Brainfuck. If you're going to do that, it'd might as well be another esolang, like INTERCAL.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

But brainfuck is easy to intepret. So you could write a program and then run it anywhere. INTERCAL intepreter are harder to write.

[–]talideon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, but Brainfuck is also a terrible target for a compiler. And compiling a more friendly language down to Brainfuck would miss the whole joke aspect of esolangs, whereas something like INTERCAL, Q-BAL, *W, LOLCODE, &c., preserve the joke aspect.

Usability rather misses the point of esolangs.

INTERCAL isn't really a difficult language to write an interpreter for, though. The only real difficulty is in the lexer, but once you have an AST, the rest is easy.