ByteRibbon

A simple little Brainfuck interpreter in C#.

For absolutely no reason at all, I present a very hasty and slow Brainfuck interpreter in C#. Maybe I'll get around to optimising it one day.

Here's a hello world program in Brainfuck:

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

The following table is straight from Wikipedia's table of Brainfuck commands:

Brainfuck	Meaning
>	Increment the data pointer (to point to the next cell to the right).
<	Decrement the data pointer (to point to the next cell to the left).
+	Increment (increase by one) the byte at the data pointer.
-	Decrement (decrease by one) the byte at the data pointer.
.	Output the byte at the data pointer.
,	Accept one byte of input, storing its value in the byte at the data pointer.
[	If the byte at the data pointer is zero, then instead of moving the instruction pointer forward to the next command, jump it forward to the command after the matching ] command.
]	If the byte at the data pointer is nonzero, then instead of moving the instruction pointer forward to the next command, jump it back to the command after the matching [ command.

You're essentially manipulating a Turing machine to produce output.

Usage

Compile the project in Visual Studio, run it like this:

ByteRibbon.exe "examples/hello.b"

Limitations

Largely untested and very unoptimized, the Turing machine underlying the language is a very hasty port from the PHP version in my ancient Brainfony repository. It's gonna be buggy and slow.

Also, random inline text will break the tokenizer. It's easy to change this so you can stick non-instructions wherever you like (like I believe Urban Muller's original Brainfuck implementation does) by changing the regular expressions that the tokenizer is initialized with.

Contributing

If you find a bug and would really like to contribute for whatever reason, feel free to fork and submit a pull request.