brainfuck

plural brainfucks

1. vulgarSomething that destabilizes, confuses, or manipulates a person's mind.

   What a brainfuck. Little Roger, my brother, wanted to have a talk about sex.

   2004, Dana Hodgdon, Adam's Theories, iUniverse, published 2004, →ISBN, page 107

   Synonyms: headfuck, mindfuck, mindscrew

1. Alternative letter-case form of Brainfuck.

present singular third person brainfucks · participle present brainfucking · participle past brainfucked · past brainfucked

1. vulgarTo destabilize, confuse, or manipulate a person's mind.

   "I don't want to hear that. Don't try and brainfuck me by turning this around and making it some sort of redemption thing. […]

   1999, Boston Teran, God Is a Bullet, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 70

alternative brainfuck

1. computer languagesA minimalist esoteric programming language, created for amusement, in which every basic machine instruction is represented by a single character.

   Some eccentric languages are structurally just as simple, but intentionally made awfully hard to understand — like the notorious languages Brainfuck […] or Malbolge.

   2005, G. Braziller, Inc., edited by Morten Søndergaard, Perttu Rastas, and Björn Norberg, Get real: real time + art + theory + practice + history, →ISBN, page 48

   2 more examples

   Brainfuck is an archetypically minimalist language, providing merely eight commands, each represented by a single character. These commands operate on an array of 30000 byte cells initialized to 0.

   2008, Matthew Fuller, Software Studies: A Lexicon, →ISBN, page 269

   Brainfuck language is the gotoless programming language, and it has a implicit byte pointer which is free to move […] In addition, Brainfuck defines only eight-instructions associated with the pointer[…]

   2010, Miguel Soriano, Sihan Qing, Javier López, Information and Communications Security: 12th International Conference, Icics 2010, Barcelona, Spain, December 15-17, 2010 Proceedings, →ISBN, page 345