andrel <a_l### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet.html

  Speaking of esoteric languages, I like the basic idea behind befunge, but
I hate its actual implementation.

  The execution of the program following the 2D arrangement of the command
characters is a clever idea, and could result in very interesting programming
challenges. However, the actual implementation of befunge sucks because it's
way too limited. It's almost impossibly hard to have actual *variables* and,
AFAIK, basically impossible to access anything but the value at the top of
the value stack. This makes writing even simple programs, such as for example
an ascii mandelbrot drawing program, incredibly difficult.

  IMO befunge's clever idea was ruined by a poor implementation, which has
a way too limited set of commands.

  Befunge's idea with a much more powerful and expressive set of commands
could be actually very interesting.

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                                                          - Warp

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