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Re: anything-to-INTERCAL translator???

2008-08-21T16:15:50Z

On Aug 16, 9:44 am, Claudio Calvelli
My original intent in asking this question was to see if there was any
way forward to the sometimes stated goal of unifying Don Woods's two
famous projects, INTERCAL and ADVENT. I was thinking that if someone
had implemented a braindf*ck -> INTERCAL compiler, then one could use

Re: anything-to-INTERCAL translator???

2008-08-21T06:22:02Z

The design goal is to make a language different from other languages.
In this sense INTERCAL has failed right from the start in some points.
However, all languages have bad points, so not having good points has
never been a design goal.
C

Re: anything-to-INTERCAL translator???

2008-08-19T14:08:26Z

INTERCAL has good points? Does that mean one of the language
designers messed up?

Re: anything-to-INTERCAL translator???

2008-08-16T13:44:14Z

Yes. It is part of the way the compiler works at present, and a small number
of sick's "options" work by using this feature. However it may be removed
without notice as I am forever planning to work on non-Perl backends for
CLC-INTERCAL.
I confess I haven't looked into this, but I wouldn't be surprised. I'd

Re: anything-to-INTERCAL translator???

2008-08-16T13:30:59Z

At home (unreleased and very unfinished), I'm working on a Prolog to
Backtracking
INTERCAL compiler (no code yet, but the plans are in place), and on
inventing
a new language specifically to compile to INTERCAL. The second
language is
more interesting; I was planning to make a language that has all of

Re: anything-to-INTERCAL translator???

2008-08-15T18:51:16Z

It would have to be done in a way no other translator would ever want to
imitate.
My compiler used to be able to generate INTERCAL as output. It could
be used as an INTERCAL obfuscator, and, by simply writing a parser for
some other language it could become a something-to-INTERCAL translator.
I removed the feature for some reason. Probably because porting it to

anything-to-INTERCAL translator???

2008-08-15T15:27:42Z

I realize that it would be strictly against the spirit of INTERCAL --
and Don Woods' ghost will probably COME FROM the future to strangle me
for proposing it -- but has anyone ever attempted to write a
translator that generates INTERCAL code from some other language? Even
a very simple one, perhaps, like Brainf*ck?

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Re: Junk at end of line

2008-05-09T07:08:39Z

CLC-INTERCAL is happy to let a statement end where the next one starts,
as well as one start where the previous one ends. In other words,
"DO (10) NEXT JUNK" is two statements, a valid one and an invalid one.
When you run it you get a a SPLAT "*000 JUNK" (assuming you also have
a "(10) PLEASE RESUME #1" or similar, of course).

Junk at end of line

2008-05-08T14:18:45Z

This problem was identified in an email conversation between me and
Joris Huizer: I'm pasting (with permission) the conversation below, to
describe the problem (skip to the bottom for a short summary):
=== Joris:
Hello AIS,
Just some detail that few will probably ever notice, but...
(I'm not sure whether I should post such at the newsgroup or just send

C-INTERCAL development process opened up

2008-05-08T13:55:22Z

More than one person has now expressed interest in seeing intermediate
C-INTERCAL versions; such a system is obviously beneficial to allow
other people to better contribute to the development process, and will
hopefully result in more stable and better tested released versions.
Development snapshots of C-INTERCAL are now hosted at <[link]

Re: CLC-INTERCAL 1.-94.-2 escapes, C-INTERCAL 0.28 released

2008-04-01T18:07:21Z

My newsreader seemed to mangle some of the URLs, so here they are
again:
<[link]> <http://
intercal.freeshell.org/downloa d/CLC-INTERCAL-1.-94.-2/>
<[link]>
<[link]>

CLC-INTERCAL 1.-94.-2 escapes, C-INTERCAL 0.28 released

2008-04-01T18:04:57Z

First, as you can see in the headline, there are two new versions of
INTERCAL implementations: see
<[link]> or
<[link]>
for CLC-INTERCAL 1.-94.-2
<[link]>, <http://

C-INTERCAL 0.27 bugfix patch

2008-01-06T21:06:47Z

Some errors in the optimiser for C-INTERCAL 0.27 have been brought to
my attention (thanks Joris!), and also an error in the parser which
acts like an optimiser error; here is a patch that should fix them. I
hope that Usenet doesn't mess this patch up too badly; if it does,
email me and I'll send you a copy that way.

Re: C-INTERCAL version 0.27 released

2007-12-23T16:17:33Z

I wrote:
I'd written this message in advance. There are actually two download
pages now, with the same content:
<[link]>
<[link]>