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Not to mention printing resources. I already had to pause to refill the black toner cartridge twice and reloaded the paper tray countless times, and the end is nowhere near.

I was deceived by a glimmer of false hope: a page full of ). Alas, I then glanced at the page number---far short of the 18000+ goal.

It would probably be cheaper to use one of those "print-on-demand" book services and get multiple hardback volumes than pay for all that ink.

Volumes XVIII, XIX and XX: closing parens.

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Not necessarily, this actually sounds like a great bootstrapping tool. All you need to write on a new platform is a BLC interpreter, which should be easier to implement. Using the C->BCL translation, you might be able to build something like TinyCC and work up from there.

I would think that the amount of RAM used by the lambda-monster (100+ GB to compile single-page C files) would make a practical application like that rather unpractical, for the time being.

Definitely ranks up there.

My favorite is still INTERCAL [1] since the result is actually useful, and it ranks high on the levity meter.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTERCAL