Well, you are a glutton for punishment, aren't you? This is my MSDOS
port of C-INTERCAL. Ick is a translator, producing a C source file
which is then passed to YOUR C COMPILER. Be sure to unzip with the
-d option in order to restore the directory structure. All sources
are included, but if you want to rebuild the compiler you'll also
need a bison or yacc, and a flex or a lex.

The filename is of the form ICKXXDYY.ZIP, in which XX is the
C-INTERCAL version number and YY is the MSDOS revision number.

Please remember: YOU NEED A C COMPILER! 

Hint: Check out ick's -b option.

                                       - William Patterson

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INTERCAL was inspired by one ambition: to have a compiler language
which has nothing at all in common with any other major language. By
'major' was meant anything with which the authors were at all
familiar, e.g., FORTRAN, BASIC, COBOL, ALGOL, SNOBOL, SPITBOL, FOCAL,
SOLVE, TEACH, APL, LISP, and PL/I. For the most part, INTERCAL has
remained true to this goal, sharing only the basic elements such as
variables, arrays, and the ability to do I/O, and eschewing all
conventional operations other than the assi nment statement (FORTRAN
"=").

INTERCAL's main advantage over other programming languages is its
strict simplicity. It has few capabilities, and thus there are few
restrictions to be kept in mind. Since it is an exceedingly easy
language to learn, one might expect it would be a good language for
initiating novice programmers. Perhaps surprising, then, is the fact
that it would be more likely to initiate a novice into a search for
another line of work. As it turns out, INTERCAL is more useful (which
isn't saying much) as a challenge to rofessional programmers.

Shown below is a relatively simple INTERCAL program which will read
in 32-bit unsigned integers, treat them as signed, 2's-complement
numbers, and print out their absolute values. The program exits if
the absolute value is zero. Note in particular the inversion routine
(statements 6 through 14), which could be greatly simplified if the
subroutine library were used.

        DO (5) NEXT
    (5) DO FORGET #1
        PLEASE WRITE IN :1
        DO .1 <- '?":1~'#32768$#0'"$#1'~#3
        DO (1) NEXT
        DO :1 <- "'?":1~'#65535$#0'"$#65535'
                ~'#0$#65535'"$"'?":1~'#0$#65535'"
                $#65535'~'#0$#65535'"
        DO :2 <- #1
        PLEASE DO (4) NEXT
    (4) DO FORGET #1
        DO .1 <- "?':1~:2'$#1"~#3
        DO :1 <- "'?":1~'#65535$#0'"$":2~'#65535
                $#0'"'~'#0$#65535'"$"'?":1~'#0
                $#65535'"$":2~'#65535$#0'"'~'#0$#65535'"
        DO (1) NEXT
        DO :2 <- ":2~'#0$#65535'"
                $"'":2~'#65535$#0'"$#0'~'#32767$#1'"
        DO (4) NEXT
    (2) DO RESUME .1
    (1) PLEASE DO (2) NEXT
        PLEASE FORGET #1
        DO READ OUT :1
        PLEASE DO .1 <- '?"':1~:1'~#1"$#1'~#3
        DO (3) NEXT
        PLEASE DO (5) NEXT
    (3) DO (2) NEXT
        PLEASE GIVE UP

- From THE INTERCAL PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE - REVISED REFERENCE MANUAL,
   With C-INTERCAL Revisions,
      Copyright (C) 1973 by Donald R. Woods and James M. Lyon,
      Copyright (C) 1996 by Eric S. Raymond