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github suppresses views of syntax-highlighted files that have too many lines or too-long lines. They make browsers crawl or crash (too many elements...) and they're not useful for humans to try to view on a web page anyway.

I guess it's no surprise that microsoft software has a human-edited source file that's over 35000 lines...

> I guess it's no surprise that microsoft software has a human-edited source file that's over 35000 lines...

IIRC, it was originally machine-generated... from LISP code written by David Bacon, under contract from the then-GC owner Patrick Dussud.

Holy crap, do you have a link that explains that in more detail? That sounds amazing.

Here go: http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Patrick-Dussud-Gar...

I'm sorry, what? That sounds awesome.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/patrick_dussud/archive/2006/11/21/ho...

>(Sorry about that, but we can't show files that are this big right now.)

Because it's a gargantuan 1193.581 kb.

I think the file is a little too long for github to syntax colour it.