>It'll print the reverse of a string, but it will also print everything before it until it hits a null byte. exactly! The brainfuck execution starts with the p

>It'll print the reverse of a string, but it will also print everything before it until it hits a null byte. exactly! The brainfuck execution starts with the pointer at the first byte of zero-filled array: http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/bf/ http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/bf/ So the first ">" in my program moves the pointer to the next byte, and this skipped first byte would serve as a stopper when pointer moves back.