Dear Reader,

Contained in this directory are some recently unearthed documents which sketch a design for a programming language called "Befunge", which, it should be noted, bears little resemblance to the programming language now known as Befunge.

These documents are dated January 1993, whereas the Befunge-93 documents are dated September 1993. This seems to indicate that the name "Befunge" was in existence for at least eight months before it settled on the programming language that was to become attached to it.

I make no apologies for the rhetorical excesses found in these documents, nor for the cockamamie approach to language design that they embody.

Chris Pressey
London (THE London)
June 6, 2018