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INTERCAL
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<p>The Compiler Language With No Pronounceable Acronym (INTERCAL) is an <a href="/facts/Esoteric_programming_language/nyRNfC2P">esoteric programming language</a> that was created as a <a href="/facts/Parody/xDs59sgV">parody</a> by <a href="/facts/Don_Woods_(programmer)/KUICkHoa">Don Woods</a> and James M. Lyon [ru], two <a href="/facts/Princeton_University/n3EPGHBM">Princeton University</a> students, in 1972. It satirizes aspects of the various programming languages at the time, as well as the proliferation of proposed language constructs and notations in the 1960s. </p><p>There are two maintained implementations of INTERCAL dialects: C-INTERCAL (created in 1990), maintained by <a href="/facts/Eric_S._Raymond/9jLGSUtk">Eric S. Raymond</a> and Alex Smith, and CLC-INTERCAL, maintained by Claudio Calvelli. </p>