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INTERCAL
KindProgramming language
Appeared1972
StatusMaintenance
CreatorLyon & Woods / Princeton
FamilyEsoteric
Sourcewww.muppetlabs.com ↗

The original esoteric language — PLEASE, COME FROM, and a compiler that punishes politeness errors; parody as a programming paradigm since 1972.

Lyon and Woods's INTERCAL (1972) — the original esolang, predating the word — was designed to be nothing like any other language: PLEASE, DO, COME FROM, and a compiler that mocked you.\n\nIt invented the parody language; every esolang since is in its debt.

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Sources

  1. muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/intercal/
  2. esolangs.org/wiki/INTERCAL