Talk:INTERCAL

Cellular automata

The ?,&,V operators are equivalent to cellular automata:

? = rule 102
& = rule 136
V = rule 238

Try doing just 1 operator, like this:

#102*.1 == .?1
#136*:2 == :&2

This also makes it easy to make a cellular automata program in INTERCAL, do rule 102 like:

DO COME FROM (105)
PLEASE DO .112 <- .?112
(105) DO (256) NEXT

INTERCAL is Turing-complete

Moved to its own page: INTERCAL Turing-completeness proof. Alksentrs 23:36, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Re: INTERCAL is Turing-complete

Moved to Talk:INTERCAL Turing-completeness proof. Alksentrs 23:45, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

INTERCAL is not Compiler Language With No Pronouncable Acronym

INTERCAL can be said in-ter-cal (the 'A' is 'A' an in cat ) --(this comment by 72.25.192.4 at 23:10, 13 September 2009 UTC; please sign your comments with ~~~~)

     __        ___   _  ___   ___  ____  _   _
__/\_\ \      / / | | |/ _ \ / _ \/ ___|| | | |_/\__
\    /\ \ /\ / /| |_| | | | | | | \___ \| |_| \    /
/_  _\ \ V  V / |  _  | |_| | |_| |___) |  _  /_  _\
  \/    \_/\_/  |_| |_|\___/ \___/|____/|_| |_| \/

--Ørjan 01:19, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

Binary operators

I would find the INTERCAL binary select operator, as well as its (almost) inverse (filling unused positions with zero), to be very useful to have in other programming languages too; not only INTERCAL. --Zzo38 (talk) 20:38, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

Apparently Intel agrees with you. These instructions have been implemented as machine code instructions on modern x86_64 processors (although with different names). --ais523 22:50, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

Hardware INTERCAL

Is there INTERCAL into Verilog, VHDL, and discrete logic? --Zzo38 (talk) 20:38, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

Quick Perl one-line to check your politeness

my$t="";while(<>){$t.=$_};$t=~s/PLEASE\s*DO/PLEASE/,$p=()=$t=~/PLEASE/g,$d=()=$t=~/DO/g,$f=($d+$p)/$p;print$f>=3&&$f<=5?1:0;print"\n".1/$f;

Provide your INTERCAL program as input. The first line of output is 1 if you're correct, 0 if not. The second line of output is the percentage of statements that are polite, as a decimal. For the least amount of future editing required, the percentage should be somewhere around 0.266. There is a glitch if you don't put a space in READ OUT (which will count as an extra DO). BoundedBeans (talk) 01:51, 29 July 2024 (UTC)