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[ ; 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