Intercal 9x

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2 total messages Started by Stephen Spackman Wed, 28 Oct 1992 11:46

Author: Stephen Spackman
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 11:46

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Surely it's time for a standardisation push?

What about the data structure issue, doesn't Intercal deserve high level
data structures?
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stephen p spackman                                       stephen@acm.org
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Re: Intercal 9x

Author: Magnus Alvestad
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1992 22:22

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>>>>> On Wed, 28 Oct 1992 11:46:48 GMT, spackman@disco-sol.dfki.uni-sb.de (Stephen Spackman) said:

	Stephen> Surely it's time for a standardisation push?

I think the ANSI X12J5 comittee is working on it. They just can't seem
to agree on the best way of using negativary numbers. I think there is
a conflict between the (left-radical) minus-one complement wing and
the (liberal) pi-complement wing.

Religious war issues, these. 

	Stephen> What about the data structure issue, doesn't Intercal
	Stephen> deserve high level data structures?

Yes .. I think they are discussing one bag structure, where you put
your values in with a KICK operation, and then get them out again with
a DRAG operation. This is a so called FITO 'stack' - First In Then
Out. Of course, the values are returned in a random order.

This structure will be invaluable to BogoSort programs, random number
generators and numerous other applications. Look forward to it!

-Magnus

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