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INTERCAL. The language designed to be Turing-complete but as
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fundamentally unlike any existing language as possible. Expressions
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that look like line noise. Control constracts that will make you gasp,
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make you laugh, and possibly make you hurl. Data structures? We don't
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need no steenking data structures!
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INTERCAL. Designed very early one May morning in 1972 by two hackers
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who are still trying to live it down. Initially implemented on an IBM
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360 running batch SPITBOL. Described by a manual that circulated for
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years after the short life of the first implementation, reducing
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strong men to tears (of laughter). Revived in 1990 by the C-INTERCAL
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compiler, and now the center of an international community of
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technomasochists.
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INTERCAL. Now you, too, can be a part of the madness.
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