":::::: The various implementations weren't ""silliness and unrelated nonsense"", but I presume they are off-topic here, and they are too much original content even in a dedicated page (I think most of the code present in Wikipedia is original content). The original purpose of Knuth was to design a little test to tell adult languages apart from more primitive ones, but showing a list of actual adult languages (and why they are adult) seems off-topic here. The implementations are now moved (by someone else) here (www.rosettacode.org/wiki/Man_or_boy_test ), a wiki that has right the purpose of showing alternative implementations of the same code.

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