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  1. RedEnchilada (notice the lack of a space) RedEnchilada (notice the lack of a space)

    "[...]and modifiers such as "PLEASE". This last keyword provides two reasons for the program's rejection by the compiler: if "PLEASE" does not appear often enough, the program is considered insufficiently polite, and the error message says this; if too often, the program could be rejected as excessively polite." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTERCAL I want to learn this language

    Friday, 05-Oct-12 03:28:47 UTC from web
    1. Scribus Scribus

      @redenchilada And then, incorporate a Whitespace program into it.

      Friday, 05-Oct-12 03:29:37 UTC from web
    2. Toksyuryel Toksyuryel

      @redenchilada INTERCAL basically has the best spec ever written.

      Friday, 05-Oct-12 03:30:25 UTC from web
    3. Sir E. Hooves III Sir E. Hooves III

      @redenchilada And that was originally undocumented. XD

      Friday, 05-Oct-12 03:32:59 UTC from web
    4. Toksyuryel Toksyuryel

      @redenchilada "It is a well-known and oft-demonstrated fact that a person whose work is incomprehensible is held in high esteem. For example, if one were to state that the simplest way to store a value of 65536 in a 32-bit INTERCAL variable is: DO :1 <- #$#256 any sensible programmer would say that that was absurd. Since this is indeed the simplest method, the programmer would be made to look foolish in front of his boss, who would of course happened to turn up, as bosses are wont to do. The effect would be no less devastating for the programmer having been correct."

      Friday, 05-Oct-12 03:36:21 UTC from web
      1. RedEnchilada (notice the lack of a space) RedEnchilada (notice the lack of a space)

        @toksyuryel "INTERCAL recognizes 5 operators--2 binary and 3 unary. Please be kind to our operators: they may not be very intelligent, but they're all we've got."

        Friday, 05-Oct-12 03:40:21 UTC from web