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In the ANSI/CCITT norm declaration centers some
interesting new features came up to discussion.
One favourite idea is the new intercal command:

   write_hello_world

In order to ease the newusers entrance in intercal,
this command does the usual:

  1 starts, 
  2 tries to write "hello world" in greek-letters on every 
     available screen in the house (or should it be street/town?) 
  3 comes from 1
  4 stops
  5 repeats 1-3 as often as possible 
    (or necessary)

Would You vote for this command, then vote YES (else don't vote)
Please do NOT send a vote to the sender of this article -- I wont read
anything.

rumpe@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Bernhard Rumpe) writes:

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YES

>>>>> On Fri, 6 Nov 1992 16:45:06 GMT, rumpe@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Bernhard Rumpe) said:
Bernhard> Originator: rumpe@sunbroy7.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
Bernhard> In the ANSI/CCITT norm declaration centers some
Bernhard> interesting new features came up to discussion.
Bernhard> One favourite idea is the new intercal command:
Bernhard>    write_hello_world
Bernhard> In order to ease the newusers entrance in intercal,
Bernhard> this command does the usual:
Bernhard>   1 starts, 
Bernhard>   2 tries to write "hello world" in greek-letters on every 
Bernhard>      available screen in the house (or should it be street/town?) 

On any available screen in network: cannot write on screen of TV set
if it is not connected to computer or not powered on...

But the command name is too long, better use write_hello or writehello
or even writehelo. More, need a change in user politeness check made
by compiler: actually compiler requires >1/5 and <1/3 of all statements
to contain keyword PLEASE. I suggest: count of PLEASE should be > 1/5
of statement count and count_of_PLEASE-1 should be < 1/3, this makes
possibility to write single-line program: 0001 PLEASE WRITEHELO
which otherwise would be rejected by compiler (programmer too polite),
note writing: 0001 DO WRITEHELO is rejected (insufficiently polite).
Hope the problem will be fixed in next release...

Jerzy Tarasiuk writes:
> I suggest: count of PLEASE should be > 1/5 of statement count and
> count_of_PLEASE-1 should be < 1/3, this makes possibility to write
> single-line program: 0001 PLEASE WRITEHELO which otherwise would be
> rejected by compiler (programmer too polite),

You don't need to do that -- you can just add extra (useless) statements
before, during or after the line you want.

Changes like that are just the sort of thing that threaten to destroy
Intercal's concise, elegant structure.  It's important to find out ways
of doing things in the language, rather than changing the compiler every
time we have a problem.

Pete.
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Pete Bevin -- pete@sst.icl.co.uk