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Will I learn much of any programming language by the end of 2026?
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+ increment the number under the head
- decrement the number under the head
> move the head right
< move the head left
. output the number under the head
, read a number and store it under the head

Finally, the tricksy one:
[] repeat the stuff in the brackets till the number under the head is zero


I am fully confident you can learn the first six by the end of the year, and in fact you will struggle to not learn them by reading this comment! As a probe: what does this do?

+.>++.>+++.


The risk to a yes resolution is whether you learn []. or failing that, whether learning all of brainfuck except [] counts as "much" of a language.


Do you know what

+++++>+++++<[>+<-]>.

does? If so we are probably stuck on yes.

(Feel free to reply, "No I meant a real programming language")