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This is the most spectacular waste of time I have ever seen. I absolutely love it!
by c-linkage 4y ago
This is the most spectacular waste of time I have ever seen. I absolutely love it!
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- kazinator 4y agoNot 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.
- caslon 4y agoIt 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.
- planede 4y agoVolumes XVIII, XIX and XX: closing parens.
- valleyer 4y ago<https://github.com/woodrush/lambda-8cc/blob/main/bin/lambda-8cc-page18506.png https://github.com/woodrush/lambda-8cc/blob/main/bin/lambda-...>
- daptaq 4y agoNot 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.
- unwind 4y agoI 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.
- cek 4y agoDefinitely 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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTERCAL