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.
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.
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.