An interesting read... What are the uses of SKI then, apart from just 
making simple algorithms take up a million characters to encode?

> Still, this whole idea came about as I was thinking about a Bash script
> that contains a tarball that it then unzips, which mostly contains a
> giant SKI program and the SKI interpreter. Good luck to anybody trying
> to reverse-engineer that! ;-)

Sounds like the start of an IOCCC entry to me, although it seems the 
recent entries are just ridiculous (like PC emulators, ray tracers and 
realtime CFD solvers in a few lines of gibberish C code with lots of 
commas).

I once wrote an interpreter for a one instruction set computer (that's a 
lot easier than what you did!) and even wrote the code to generate prime 
numbers using it, but it got complicated and boring very quickly to do 
anything useful. OK I found it on my old HD, see attached, it should(!) 
compile and output all the prime numbers up to 1000. I wouldn't attempt 
to try and figure out how it's doing it though :-)

I have a feeling though, writing a prime number generator in SKI might 
be a tad longer...

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