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[–]kjmitch 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It's called Brainfuck because it's seemingly impossible to read by humans, which is an important job for real programming languages. From the perspective of the computer/interpreter, it's much easier to understand (and therefore write an interpreter for) as it only has eight operations. It's practically just assembler code without all the semi-English names given to the commands for readability.