Comment by tromp

Comment by tromp 6 months ago

Am I right in deducing that this language gets its power from self-modifying code? I.e. flipping bits within addresses of the opcodes of the running program?

tomhee 6 months ago

You are indeed right

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tromp 6 months ago

I would have expected the language documentation to focus more on this observation and to explain for instance how self modification is used to implement while loops. But I don't even see the term mentioned anywhere?!

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- tomhee 6 months ago
  
  Good point! It's mentioned in the github wiki here: https://github.com/tomhea/flip-jump/wiki/Learn-FlipJump#memo...
  It was once in the Readme but as I kept developing it more it become longer and longer, so I moved it into the wiki, and especially to here: https://esolangs.org/wiki/FlipJump
  
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- int_19h 6 months ago
  
  This was actually a not uncommon approach to implementing loops in earliest mainfraims.
  
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  tomhee 6 months ago
  
  Do you have any article that I can read about it? Sounds interesting!
  
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