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OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/19968/The_A-Z_of_Programming_Languages_INTERCAL Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:45:29 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Never heard of! http://osnews.com/thread?321320 http://osnews.com/thread?321320 I really feel guilty that I never heard of this language! Googling shows it's really nice, it could be the next best thing since sliced ruby!

But seriously, reading about such funny language is good way to start a day here in Europe! Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kajaman) Comments COME FROM http://osnews.com/thread?321341 http://osnews.com/thread?321341 One of the most interesting 'feature' of INTERCAL is the "COME FROM [linenumber]" statement, that replaces the usual "GOTO [linenumber]".

With that, you can break the execution flow with no visible delimiter, tracing program execution can be plain horrible.

An early experiment of exceptions ;-) Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Treza) Comments RE: Never heard of! http://osnews.com/thread?321345 http://osnews.com/thread?321345

I really feel guilty that I never heard of this language! Googling shows it's really nice, it could be the next best thing since sliced ruby! But seriously, reading about such funny language is good way to start a day here in Europe!

I love esoteric programming languages. I got into them through Brainf--k ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainf--k ) and quite enjoy seaking out and testing some of the more humours of the esolangs. My favourite (thus far) would be Chef ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chef_(programming_language) ):

Hello World Souffle.

Ingredients.
72 g haricot beans
101 eggs
108 g lard
111 cups oil
32 zucchinis
119 ml water
114 g red salmon
100 g dijon mustard
33 potatoes

Method.
Put potatoes into the mixing bowl.
Put dijon mustard into the mixing bowl.
Put lard into the mixing bowl.
Put red salmon into the mixing bowl.
Put oil into the mixing bowl.
Put water into the mixing bowl.
Put zucchinis into the mixing bowl.
Put oil into the mixing bowl.
Put lard into the mixing bowl.
Put lard into the mixing bowl.
Put eggs into the mixing bowl.
Put haricot beans into the mixing bowl.
Liquefy contents of the mixing bowl.
Pour contents of the mixing bowl into the baking dish.

Serves 1. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Laurence) Comments