Befunge Maintenance
Befunge
KindProgramming language
Appeared1993
StatusMaintenance
CreatorChris Pressey
FamilyEsoteric
Sourcecatseye.tc ↗
The two-dimensional language — programs are grids the instruction pointer traverses in four directions, designed to be as hard to compile as possible.
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Created by Chris Pressey
Chris Pressey's Befunge (1993) — a 2-D grid language where the instruction pointer moves in two dimensions — was designed to be uncompileable.\n\nIt is the esolang that asked 'what is a program?' and answered with toroidal topology; Befunge-98 is the standard.