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Re:Adventures in JIT compilation: Part 1 – an interpreter by eliben on Thursday March 23, 2017 @12:45PM (#13941451)
Can you clarify what you mean by "copying everything"?

A good thing about BF, IMHO, is that its syntax is trivial to the point of almost non-existence, and that its memory model is C-like.

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Re:Adventures in JIT compilation: Part 1 – an interpreter by sverige on Thursday March 23, 2017 @05:53PM (#13944714)
Yes, sorry, I mean to make it human-readable, I always copy BF to https://copy.sh/brainfuck/ so I can check whether the output is correct. '12345' is a lot easier to read than +++++++- ++++++-+ ++++++-- +++++-++ +++++-+- or whatever.

I agree that the language itself is very likeable for the reasons you stated, but I'm partial to things that I can easily check. It's called Brainfuck for a reason. ;)

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