tool: C-INTERCAL
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Language:
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INTERCAL
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Version:
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0.10
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Parts:
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compiler(->C), library, documentation
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Author:
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Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
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Location:
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ftp://locke.ccil.org:pub/retro/intercal-0.10.tar.gz
(in the Museum of Retrocomputing)
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Description:
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INTERCAL is possibly the most elaborate and long-lived joke
in the history of programming languages. It was first designed
by Don Woods and Jim Lyons in 1972 as a deliberate attempt
to produce a language as unlike any existing one as possible.
The manual, describing features of horrifying uniqueness,
became an underground classic. ESR wrote C-INTERCAL in 1990
as a break from editing _The_New_Hacker's_Dictionary_, adding
to it the first implementation of COME FROM under its own name.
The compiler has since been maintained and extended by an
international community of technomasochists. The distribution
includes extensive documentation and a program library.
C-INTERCAL is actually an INTERCAL-to-C source translator which
then calls the local C compiler to generate a binary. The code
is thus quite portable.
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Contact:
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Steve Swales <steve@bat.lle.rochester.edu>
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Updated:
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May 20th, 1993
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language: INTERCAL
category: curiosities
summary, or
expanded.
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