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taxonomy | brainfuck |

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and brainfuck

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while brainfuck is (vulgar) something that destabilizes, confuses, or manipulates a person's mind.

As a verb brainfuck is

(vulgar) to destabilize, confuse, or manipulate a person's mind.

taxonomy

English

(wikipedia taxonomy)

Noun

(taxonomies)
  • The science or the technique used to make a classification.
  • A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
  • (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

    • Synonyms

    * alpha taxonomy

    Derived terms

    * folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomy

    See also

    * classification * rank * taxon * domain * kingdom * subkingdom * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * class * subclass * infraclass * superorder * order * suborder * infraorder * parvorder * superfamily * family * subfamily * genus * species * subspecies * superregnum * regnum * subregnum * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * classis * subclassis * infraclassis * superordo * ordo * subordo * infraordo * taxon * superfamilia * familia * subfamilia * ontology

    brainfuck

    English

    (wikipedia Brainfuck)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A minimalist esoteric programming language, created for amusement, in which every basic machine instruction is represented by a single character.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , title=Get real: real time + art + theory + practice + history , author=G. Braziller, Inc. , editors=Morten Søndergaard, Perttu Rastas, Björn Norberg , year=2005 , page=48 , ISBN=0807615641 , passage=Some eccentric languages are structurally just as simple, but intentionally made awfully hard to understand — like the notorious languages Brainfuck
  • * {{quote-book
    • , title=Software Studies: A Lexicon , author=Matthew Fuller , year=2008 , page=269 , ISBN=0262062747 , passage=Brainfuck is an archetypically minimalist language, providing merely eight commands, each represented by a single character. These commands operate on an array of 30000 byte cells initialized to 0.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , title=Information and Communications Security: 12th International Conference, Icics 2010, Barcelona, Spain, December 15-17, 2010 Proceedings , author=Miguel Soriano, Sihan Qing, Javier López , year=2010 , page=345 , ISBN=3642176496 , passage=Brainfuck' language is the gotoless programming language, and it has a implicit byte pointer which is free to move