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You should try Perl - it's even less readable.

I'm not looking for a language that is hard to read.

The great thing about such demos is, that everyone is able to read and run it within minutes.

Yeah, readability is definitely an objective when you are trying to cram into ~30 lines.

Try to read 30 lines of Brainfuck if you are a fan of unreadable languages. :)