INTERCAL
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12 sectionsContents
- History
- Details
- Documentation
- Syntax
- Data structures
- Operators
- Control structures
- Hello, world
- Dialects
- Impact and discussion
- References
- External links
right|thumb|Don Woods (programmer)|Don Woods, one of the authors of INTERCAL, in 2010 thumb|Jim Lyon, the other author of INTERCAL, in 2005
The Compiler Language With No Pronounceable Acronym (INTERCAL) is an esoteric programming language that was created as a parody by Don Woods and , two Princeton University students, in 1972. It satirizes aspects of the various programming languages at the time, as well as the proliferation of proposed language constructs and notations in the 1960s.