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BlooP and it's sister language Floop are 'theoretical' languages with several implementations, created by Douglas Hofstadter in his book ''Gödel, Escher, Bach'', to demonstrate the halting problem.
The name BlooP is short for Bounded Loop, the primary structure of the language. FlooP is identical to BlooP in every way except that it also sorts unbounded loops. FlooP is tiring complete, where BlooP is not. There is also a third, impossible language
BlooP and FlooP have only 1 data type: non-negative integers (natural numbers). There are also only 2 variables (except parameters to procedures): <code>OUTPUT</code>, which is the value returned by a procedure, and <code>CELL(i)</code>, which is an unbounded series of numbers.
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