Invisible wrote:

> I just downloaded "tex.web" and started reading it... Hmm, LOL!

Oh wow... This stuff is really special.

The entire source code for TeX is a single 1 MB text file containing 
almost 25,000 lines of text. Almost all of it is documentation. I'm sure 
there's some Pascal code in there somewhere.

The code contains all kinds of bizare workarounds for ancient Pascal 
systems that don't support 8-bit character values (!), opening files 
who's names aren't known at compile-time (!!), storing error message 
strings in a flexible way (!?!), converting non-ASCII character sets 
such as EBCIDIC into ASCII before further processing, and all kinds of 
other utterly archaic non-issues.

Just... wow.

Clearly this thing is going to take an absurd amount of effort to 
decipher! o_O

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