[ ; This program prints "Hello World!" and a newline to the screen, its ; length is 106 active command characters. [It is not the shortest.] ; This loop is an "initial comment loop", a simple way of adding a comment ; to a BF program such that you don't have to worry about any command ; characters. Any ".", ",", "+", "-", "<" and ">" characters are simply ; ignored, the "[" and "]" characters just have to be balanced. This ; loop and the commands it contains are ignored because the current cell ; defaults to a value of 0; the 0 value causes this loop to be skipped. ] ++++++++ ; Set Cell #0 to 8 [ >++++ ; Add 4 to Cell #1; this will always set Cell #1 to 4 [ ; as the cell will be cleared by the loop >++ ; Add 2 to Cell #2 >+++ ; Add 3 to Cell #3 >+++ ; Add 3 to Cell #4 >+ ; Add 1 to Cell #5 <<<<- ; Decrement the loop counter in Cell #1 ] ; Loop until Cell #1 is zero; number of iterations is 4 >+ ; Add 1 to Cell #2 >+ ; Add 1 to Cell #3 >- ; Subtract 1 from Cell #4 >>+ ; Add 1 to Cell #6 [<] ; Move back to the first zero cell you find; this will ; be Cell #1 which was cleared by the previous loop <- ; Decrement the loop Counter in Cell #0 ] ; Loop until Cell #0 is zero; number of iterations is 8 ; The result of this is: ; Cell no : 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 ; Contents: 0 0 72 104 88 32 8 ; Pointer : ^ >>. ; Cell #2 has value 72 which is 'H' >---. ; Subtract 3 from Cell #3 to get 101 which is 'e' +++++++..+++. ; Likewise for 'llo' from Cell #3 >>. ; Cell #5 is 32 for the space <-. ; Subtract 1 from Cell #4 for 87 to give a 'W' <. ; Cell #3 was set to 'o' from the end of 'Hello' +++.------.--------. ; Cell #3 for 'rl' and 'd' >>+. ; Add 1 to Cell #5 gives us an exclamation point >++. ; And finally a newline from Cell #6