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> The course on reading and using lambda calculus is similarly longer than than the actual lambda calculus expression

I'm not sure what a "course on reading and using" has to do with description complexity? In any case, it takes 206 bits to implement a binary lambda calculus interpreter (that's Theorem 1 in http://tromp.github.io/cl/LC.pdf )




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