Are there any good books on this topic?
[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Meta-Math-Quest-Gregory-Chaitin/dp/14...
(actually - I'm guessing there's actually a countable number in the Library of Babel but it didn't read quite so amusingly that way. In any case - all the ones I flicked through were trash.)
Edit - The Library of Babel is actually finite isn't it? Fixed alphabet and fixed book length? It's a while since I read it.
However, I doubt that Borges' claim is accurate. If the set of programs is finite, then I think there cannot be a comprehensive index of all programs. A finite set is a regular language, and there is no universal regular language in the set of regular languages.