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by Retra 4152 days ago
Converting from groot to brainfuck requires simply a 1-1 command translation. It doesn't matter if these are turing machine operations, the point is that there is nothing 'esoteric' about writing down what a turing machine does using a language that everyone already knows.

If I rewrote C to use BEGIN and END instead of { and }, then that's not inventing an esoteric language, but new syntax for an existing language.