From: Tim Boyer 

On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 17:11:17 -0500, mike  wrote:

>On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 20:13:18 -0500, Rich Gauszka
> wrote:
>
>>If true the 'INTERCAL' story is hillarious
>
>Too close to April 1 for my tastes.
>
> m

You think?  :)

"INTERCAL was inspired by one ambition: to have a compiler language
which has nothing at all in common with any other major language."

Already we have encountered one way that INTERCAL differs from other languages
- it doesn't like being bossed around. You can't just tell it to 'DO, DO, DO'.
If you want it to respond nicely you will have to say 'PLEASE' at least
1/5th of the time. However INTERCAL will not stand for brown-nosing either,
so don't say PLEASE more than 1/3rd of the time. To assist in INTERCAL
programming there is an intercal.el Emacs mode included with the
distribution that randomly expands 'DO ' to 'PLEASE DO ' 1/4th of the time.
Apart from good manners, there is no semantic difference between 'DO',
'PLEASE DO' or simply 'PLEASE'.
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tim boyer
tim{at}denmantire.com

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