Talk:INTERCAL
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[edit] Character name
Oh why oh why is ; called a hybrid? --Ihope127 16:50, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
- For yea verily, ; is a combination of a : and a , , eh? —dcclark (talk) 17:10, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] On taunting the reader
Why does the article flirt and tease with the reader by declaiming that INTERCAL is sui generis and then coyly mentioning that "select" operator has precdent- and not telling us what "Select" does? --Maru (talk) Contribs 03:33, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
Added link to BESM-6. --Leob 09:01, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Requested move
"programming language" is redundant; there is nothing else called INTERCAL. There used to be a version of this at INTERCAL (at the same time that this already existed) which was merged with this one, then INTERCAL redirected here. ethan (talk) 03:11, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] Discussion
- Intercal is also short for Intercalibration in obscure circles. I want you to go ahead. -- Perfecto
04:02, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
- I've completed this move per the discussion here. —Cleared as filed. 01:12, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] At first glance
In the paragraph detailing the change from EBCDIC to ASCII, "substitutions for two characters had to be made: $ substituted for ¢ as the mingle operator [...] and ? was substituted for ∀ as the unary exclusive-or operator". As far as i know, the XOR operator is binary, not unary. -- Jokes Free4Me 13:03, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
- Nope, INTERCAL's XOR (as well as its AND and OR) are unary. You're probably better off not knowing how that's possible. -- 171.64.71.123 00:44, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
By the way, does PLEASE DO differ in any way from DO? :-) -- Jokes Free4Me 13:03, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
- Only in that the compiler will reject a program that uses either form too exclusively. -- 171.64.71.123 00:44, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Possible "See also"
I'm not familiar enough with INTERCAL to know if this would be an appropriate "See also", but someone else might wish to create a "See also" section with a link to Mornington Crescent (game). --Icarus 05:15, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Other features
Where are the classes and lectures? How about backtracking Intercal? Shinobu 07:55, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
- This is probably too detailed and too badly sourced for Wikipedia, but you can find some relevant external links at [1] (classes and lectures) and [2] (backtracking). --ais523 08:35, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Jimbo citation?
What sort of citation were you looking for? That Jimbo was a co-author? That his nickname is Jimbo? That Don Woods was an adventure author (that's in the linked article)? That this is a photo of Jim? That M is his middle initial? That he's less famous than Don? I took the tag out pending clarification of what you're asking for. Oh, I see you already made the caption humorless, so there's nothing left to cite. If you're still unsure who wrote intercal, see the reference manual or the lead sentence. Notice that it is not the musician James Lyon previously linked. Dicklyon 16:41, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
- I was wondering what proof there was that it was a photo of Jimbo, but since tagging it I've realised why that would be hard to find and unneccessary, but didn't get round to taking the tag off. I know where to find proof that he created INTERCAL (yes, it's in the manual...). I didn't know about the nickname (it's the sort of thing that sets off alarm bells, because Jimbo is the common nickname for the founder of Wikipedia). I'm sorry for removing the humour from the caption, but it's hard to strike a balance between the irreverence needed for INTERCAL and the seriousness needed for an encyclopedia; feel free to make it a bit funnier again. 'Less famous' would almost certainly spark lots of debate about its appropriateness if more people watched this article. Sorry about that! --ais523 08:52, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Apple leaked source code to Microsoft in INTERCAL
According to a recent blog post, Apple discovered that Microsoft had planted a spy in their organisation, and deliberately leaked a copy of obsolete System 7 source code, machine-translated to INTERCAL, claiming it was the latest build of OS X 10.2. Bill Gates initially fell for the trick and seriously told his programmers to incorporate the INTERCAL code into Windows Vista. JIP | Talk 05:39, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
- Due to INTERCAL's limited I/O capabilities, this seems unlikely. I can't imagine anyone writing an OS in INTERCAL-72, and neither C-INTERCAL or CLC-INTERCAL can do graphics as far as I know, so presumably this is a new secret flavour of INTERCAL? --ais523 09:49, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
- Yes, it seems pretty clear that the blog was meant to be a joke. This is probably why blogs aren't considered reliable sources; I'd recommend not putting this information in the article. --ais523 12:50, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
