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> That's not true. From the little time I've spent trying to read and write some simple programs in BF, I recall good examples being pretty legible.

Anything in a reasonably familiar type face and size will continue to be legible, however brainfuck is not easily human parsable.

Greatly reducing its ability to be _read and mentally internalized._ With out that, are you really doing software engineering or are you actually a software maintenance person?

A janitor doesn't need to understand how energy generation works if he has to change the light bulb.



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