From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2003-04-02T10:04:11+09:00
Subject: Re: April Fools.

Dossy wrote:
> On 2003.04.02, Josef 'Jupp' Schugt <jupp@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
>>* Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@math.umd.edu>; 2003-04-01, 22:23 UTC:
>>
>>>- New Whitespace-Only Programming Language.
>>
>>I do *not* think that this is only a /April Fool'?s Joke/.
> 
> 
> I'm pretty sure it's not.  Although, getting it on /. on 2003.04.01
> was clever!
> 
> I bet Whitespace programs gzip excellently!  I think a Whitespace
> interpreter that can run gzip'ed whitespace programs would be most
> excellent.
> 
> I wonder if Whitespace is Turing-complete ... it'd be fun to write a
> web application in Whitespace.

Sure. The Whitespace compiler works like this. Count the number N of 
spaces. Calculate the prime factors of N. The exponents of 2, 3, 5... 
are checked to be in the range of ascii characters (32-127, is it?). 
Then run a C compiler on this sequence of characters.

I wonder if the source code for hello, world would fit in the known 
universe, let alone a web app?