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by GregBuchholz 3699 days ago
I hope you don't have a stroke:

https://github.com/jsoftware/jsource/blob/master/jsrc/cip.c

...just one of the many source files that make the interpreter for the J language.

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The 'style' even leaked out to file naming: a.c, ab.c, af.c, am.c, c.c, ca.c, cc.c, cd.c, cf.c, ...

Brilliant!

I doubt that this is either serious (unobfuscated) or handwritten code though.

No, it really is the hand-written source code for the J language (http://jsoftware.com/) interpreter. You may also enjoy:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2336749

http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/Incunabulum