Talk:INTERCAL

message: Oh why oh why is ; called a hybrid? --Ihope127 16:50, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: For yea verily, ; is a combination of a : and a , , eh? —dcclark (talk) 17:10, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Character name 

message: 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)
thread_title:  On taunting the reader 

message: "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)
replies: text: Add *Support or *Oppose followed by an optional one sentence explanation, then sign your vote with ~~~~
*Support (created) ethan (talk) 03:11, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

text: If you want to argue with something done in 2005, you need to open a new proposal. Dicklyon (talk) 18:54, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Requested move

message: * Intercal is also short for Intercalibration in obscure circles.  I want you to go ahead. -- Perfecto  04:02, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion

message: 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)
replies: text: 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)

text: 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)
thread_title:  At first glance 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Possible "See also" 

message: Where are the classes and lectures? How about backtracking Intercal? Shinobu 07:55, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This is probably too detailed and too badly sourced for Wikipedia, but you can find some relevant external links at  (classes and lectures) and  (backtracking). --ais523 08:35, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other features 

message: 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)
replies: text: 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)
replies: text: Na, you've convinced me. I've reverted all changes I made to the caption. --ais523 08:55, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Jimbo citation?

message: 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)
replies: text: 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)
replies: text: 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)
thread_title:  Apple leaked source code to Microsoft in INTERCAL 

message: I'm looking for a syntax-highlighting IDE as I've been tasked with maintaining INTERCAL code and am having trouble not making mistakes.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.51.122.24 (talk) 15:07, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: C-INTERCAL includes syntax-highlighting code for Emacs in the distribution with recent versions, available from http://intercal.freeshell.org. (By the way, I'd like to add that link to the article, but have a conflict of interest with respect to it; if other users think it's appropriate, please add it. It's the current home page for the two major currently-maintained INTERCAL implementations; the home page given in the article is an older one.) --ais523 22:05, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  IDE? 

message: How about adding the following somewhere:
:One website offers "Online Certifications for Intercal Programmer Job Seekers":  
:
:The site offers similar certification for "Befunge Programmer Job Seekers", and the developers that use these languages,    and states that "there is no other certification system available".
(I've tried to make it NPOV.)
Alksentrs (talk) 01:03, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: First, tell us if you passed the test. Dicklyon (talk) 03:48, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I couldn't find any tests on their site. I don't think any have been written yet... Alksentrs (talk) 23:41, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed addition 

message: I was looking at Help:Displaying a formula, and spotted, in the “Unsorted (new stuff)” section of the table, a TeX command called \intercal. It looks like this:
:\intercal
I searched the web, and found it in The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List, in Table 23 (AMS Binary Operators). Does anyone know what it is used for? (I assume “intercal” is just an abbreviation; it can't be related to INTERCAL...)  Alksentrs (talk) 02:44, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: No relationship, as far as I know. Just a weird naming coincidence, it seems... --ais523 17:47, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Knuth has programmed in INTERCAL at least once. --Zzo38 (talk) 01:02, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  A symbol called “intercal”? 

message: I've changed the "Hello, world!" INTERCAL code to what I believe is correct. Looks like the original used a lower-case h and a space instead of an exclamation point. If someone could check my math, that'd be great. Kthx!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.42.153.95 (talk) 07:05, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Yep, looks good; the old version was "hello, world", the new version is "Hello, world!". I just checked on C-INTERCAL 0.-2.0.29 (which is less than a week old). --ais523 14:51, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Code Correction 

message: I just read this page, and it was a total crack-up. I'm from a younger generation of programmers and I really appreciate you guys preserving the humor from this most special era in computer science :)
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I concur. Very interesting. Zezen (talk) 23:33, 29 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thanks to the authors of this page 

message: Don't you know that INTERCAL can make Morton encoding and Gray encoding? --Zzo38 (talk) 08:28, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Morton encodings 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: So does anybody know why the page was archived when it explicitely asked (via /robots.txt) to avoid archiving?
I tried reporting the problem to archive.is but there has been no answer or action, so if anybody knows who to contact about that please let me know
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thread_title:  Unauthorised archived page 

message: COLWINPA, for COmpiler Language WIth No Pronounceable Acronym
^_^ JumpDiscont (talk) 16:20, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  A pronouncable acronym