cross-posted from: https://gekinzuku.com/post/188827
INTERCAL is an esoteric programming language which was purposely designed to be confusing and not visually aesthetic. It has two maintained implementations in C-INTERCAL and CLC-INTERCAL. C-INTERCAL’s compiler is invoked by the
ickcommand, and CLC-INTERCAL’s compiler is invoked by thesickcommand.Some highlights of INTERCAL include
- Programmers must use
PLEASEbefore statements to avoid compile errors due to being insufficiently polite, but not too manyPLEASEstatements or the compiler will report errors due to being overly polite.- Every call to a random number generator will introduce a random chance of the code failing to compile and report
E774 RANDOM COMPILER BUG, and this chance to fail increases with the number of random number generator calls.- If compiling in INTERCAL-72 mode, the compiler will report
E111 COMMUNIST PLOT DETECTEDif the programmer uses features that are newer than INTERCAL-72.The full list of compiler errors and warnings for C-INTERCAL, as well as related documentation, can be found in the intercal/doc/ick.txi file under the “Errors and Warnings” chapter. If you want to quickly scroll through them, each of the entries are preceded by an
@ieanchortag.
The Internet Historian learned how to program. Neat
Why do I need to be polite to a computer? Who is
’?.1$#256’˜’#256$#256’? And just what isE275 DON’T BYTE OFF MORE THAN YOU CAN CHEW? All this and more on this episode of In The ProgramThis episode is brought to you by Surfshark VPN