How does the Brainfuck Hello World actually work?

Question

Someone sent this to me and claimed it is a hello world in Brainfuck (and I hope so...)

++++++++++[>+++++++>++++++++++>+++>+<<<<-]>++.         


        

Answer 1

To answer the question of how it knows what to print, I have added the calculation of ASCII values to the right of the code where the printing happens:

> just means move to the next cell
< just means move to the previous cell
+ and - are used for increment and decrement respectively. The value of the cell is updated when the increment/decrement happens

+++++ +++++             initialize counter (cell #0) to 10

[                       use loop to set the next four cells to 70/100/30/10

> +++++ ++              add  7 to cell #1

> +++++ +++++           add 10 to cell #2 

> +++                   add  3 to cell #3

> +                     add  1 to cell #4

<<<< -                  decrement counter (cell #0)

]            

> ++ .                  print 'H' (ascii: 70+2 = 72) //70 is value in current cell. The two +s increment the value of the current cell by 2

> + .                   print 'e' (ascii: 100+1 = 101)

+++++ ++ .              print 'l' (ascii: 101+7 = 108)

.                       print 'l' dot prints same thing again

+++ .                   print 'o' (ascii: 108+3 = 111)

> ++ .                  print ' ' (ascii: 30+2 = 32)

<< +++++ +++++ +++++ .  print 'W' (ascii: 72+15 = 87)

> .                     print 'o' (ascii: 111)

+++ .                   print 'r' (ascii: 111+3 = 114)

----- - .               print 'l' (ascii: 114-6 = 108)

----- --- .             print 'd' (ascii: 108-8 = 100)

> + .                   print '!' (ascii: 32+1 = 33)

> .                     print '\n'(ascii: 10)