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Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com> writes:
> How about writing a C compiler in Forth?  I recall that, about thirty
> years ago, many were saying it could be done.

There is a partial C to Forth converter on mpeforth.com somewhere, iirc.
Maybe that counts.