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False programming language

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False is an esoteric programming language designed by Wouter van Oortmerssen in 1993, named after his favourite boolean value. It is a Forth-like stack-based language, with syntax designed to make the code confusing and unreadable. It is also noteworthy for having a compiler only 1024 bytes in size (written in 68000 assembly). According to van Oortmerssen, False provided the inspiration for various well known esoteric languages, including Brainfuck and Befunge.

Code examples

A factorial function:

   [$1=$[\\%1\\]?~[$1-f;!*]?]f:

Write all prime numbers between 0 and 100:
   99 9[1-$][\\$@$@$@$@\\/*=[1-$$[%\\1-$@]?0=[\\$.' ,\\]?]?]#

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