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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
clive@saturation.social ("Clive Thompson") wrote:

behold a programming language ...

... that demands you say "please"

it's like something douglas adams would have invented

i give you "INTERCAL"

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Screenshot of the Visual Studio Code editor, with a snippet of INTERCAL programming. It has lines like "DO , 1 <- #13", which appear to be assigning values to variables -- but it also has several lines that have the word "PLEASE", such as "PLEASE READ OUT , 1" and "PLEASE GIVE UP". The overall effect is pretty funny