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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.

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck#Hello_World!
]
++++++++               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