INTERCAL is an esoteric programming language.
INTERCAL is an esoteric programming language that was created as a parody by Don Woods and James M. Lyon, two Princeton University students, in 1972. It satirizes aspects of the various programming languages at the time, as well as the proliferation of proposed language constructs and notations in the 1960s. INTERCAL was intended to be completely different from all other computer languages. Common operations in other languages have cryptic and redundant syntax in INTERCAL.
Resources
- Wikipedia article on INTERCAL
- The INTERCAL Resources Page by Eric S. Raymond
- INTERCAL resources page by Brian Raiter
- Gitlab codebase for C-INTERCAL
- Abstraction and Modularity in INTERCAL paper by D. Alexander Garrett
- The INTERCAL Programming Language Reference Manual (1973) by Donald R. Woods & James M. Lyon
- A Quine for C-INTERCAL by Brian Raiter
