INTERCAL

Don Woods, one of the authors of INTERCAL, in 2010
Jim Lyon, the other author of INTERCAL, in 2005

The Compiler Language With No Pronounceable Acronym (INTERCAL) is an esoteric programming language that was created as a parody by Don Woods and James M. Lyon [ru], two Princeton University students, in 1972. It satirizes aspects of the various programming languages at the time,[1] as well as the proliferation of proposed language constructs and notations in the 1960s.

There are two maintained implementations of INTERCAL dialects: C-INTERCAL (created in 1990), maintained by Eric S. Raymond[2] and Alex Smith,[3] and CLC-INTERCAL, maintained by Claudio Calvelli.[4]

  1. ^ "The A-Z of Programming Languages: INTERCAL". Techworld. 2008-07-04. Retrieved 2012-03-10.
  2. ^ "The INTERCAL Resources Page". Catb.org. Retrieved 2012-03-10.
  3. ^ "Alex Smith Biography". wolframscience.com.
  4. ^ "Clc-Intercal". Clc-Intercal. 2010-04-01. Archived from the original on 2012-12-24. Retrieved 2012-03-10.