On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Ben Glazer wrote:

> > OK, I'll byte - what is INTERCAL?
> 
> It's a language written by Eric S. Raymond.  INTERCAL is designed to be
> Turing-complete, but extremely difficult to program and read.
> 
> See http://earthspace.net/~esr/intercal/ for more details.

   I thought he just revived it in all it's horrid glory by writing a
modern compiler for it.  
   For anyone that's wondering, this is the langauge that, in seeing the
incredible abuse of the goto statement, implemented the come from
statement.

   Adam

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