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Re: Do you know Intercal?

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From: David Schachter
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1989 00:55
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A "language" called "Intercal" was written, as a joke,
at Princeton University in the mid-70's.  I have a
manual for it at home.  (Possibly, only the manual was
written, not the language it describes.)  With a lot of
prodding, I could be dragooned into xerographing a copy
and sending it to you.  (This involves hunting through
some musty old boxes of college papers.)  Or you can
see if the Princeton University Computer Center still
has the manual on-line (well, accessible as a batch job
from the IBM Operating System.  Probably not directly
accessible from the CMS timesharing system.)  The
number for the PUCC Computer Clinic used to be:

		(609) 452-6028 or -6029

However, that was eight years ago.  You can contact the
University switchboard at (609 452-3000.  Hope this
helps.

By the way, I believe one of the authors of the language
went on to be a prime mover of Amdahl's UTS stuff, or
maybe one of his brothers.  They left quite a trail at
Princeton.

Of course, I could be completely wrong.

				-- David Schachter

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