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+== A Brainfuck Interpreter written in Erlang ==
+
+Brainfuck is an esoteric programming language noted for its extreme minimalism. The language
+consists of only eight simple commands and an instruction pointer. It is designed to challenge and
+amuse programmers, and was not made to be suitable for practical use. It was created in 1993 by
+Urban Müller. (Source: Wikipedia)
+
+This interpreter supports all eight instructions as well as nested loops. You can
+feed it a file with brainfuck code mixed with comments. It will execute the commands
+and ignore everything else.