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Okay, I just discovered all jokes are bad on HN. It would have been nice to discover that sooner.
Bunch of grumps here.
Because somebody thinks its hilarious- and builds a converter from a "serious" language.
And is a stand alone guy in some forsaken company- and converts it all to brainfuck. And leaves and takes the "real" source along. And the next guy finds it years later and has to do with it.
Lots of "jokes" become running gags, and the running gags - long after being funny, have some poor guy having to keep those gags going. The poor guys venture on Hacker News in there spare time - and try to cause a abortion to the next generation of Franken-Frames being cobbled together.
Random Trivia: The guy who wrote brainfuck also contributed to the sauerbraten cube2 game engine.