[Haskell-cafe] Language simplicity

[Andrew Coppin]

Marc Weber wrote:
>> As you can see, this conclusively proves... something.
>>     
>
> What about brainfuck? 8 different signs are used.
> -> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck#cite_note-0
>
> The first link points to a page saying there is an interpreter 98 bytes
> in size..
>
> What does this prove? :-)
>   

Exhibit A: The Iota calculus.

It has one value (the Iota function), and one operator (function 
application). It is Turing-complete.

I have literally *no idea* how big an interpretter would be...