INTERCAL /in't*r-kal/ n.
[said by the authors to stand for `Compiler Language With No
Pronounceable Acronym'] A computer language designed by Don Woods
and James Lyons in 1972. INTERCAL is purposely different from all
other computer languages in all ways but one; it is purely a
written language, being totally unspeakable. An excerpt from the
INTERCAL Reference Manual will make the style of the language
clear:
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: