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INTERCAL

Esoteric Language

INTERCAL (Compiler Language With No Pronounceable Acronym) is an esoteric programming language created in 1972 by Don Woods and James M. Lyon as a parody, intended to poke fun at the various shortcomings of other contemporary programming languages, and it has been described as deliberately unlike any other programming language before or since. INTERCAL requires programmers to use commands such as PLEASE, and is generally considered the first esoteric programming language.

Facts
First Released
1972 1
Significance
Parody esoteric language intended to be completely different from all other computer languages 1
Sources
1. INTERCAL, Wikipedia
  • Lead paragraph, first and second sentences
    students, in 1972. It satirizes aspects of the various programming languages at the time,
  • Details section, first sentence
    INTERCAL was intended to be completely different from all other computer languages.
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