[ajyoon]

I was surprised to learn that this has got to be one of the only languages which is easier to compile than interpret. When compiled the language reduces to basically a single-register assembly with a one-to-one character-to-line ratio. Bracket branching can be extremely easily implemented with jump labels and `test` + `jnz` statements without having to worry about things like parsing and jump table construction at all.

[QuercusMax]

It's pretty freaking easy to interpret, as well... I implemented an interpreter in Go (which I had never used before) in an hour or so; most of the time spent was learning the two languages (Go and BF).

I should start asking interview candidates to write a BF interpreter...