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1 This directory contains the documentation (such as it is) for INTERCAL.
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3 READ.ME
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4 This file.
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5
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6 intercal.mm:
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7 Masters for the INTERCAL manual (needs pic to render illos)
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8 This has been carefully proofread against the original paper
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9 version.
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10
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11 THEORY
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12 Implementation notes on the C-INTERCAL implementation.
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14 chip.spec:
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15 Christian Brunschen's spec sheet for the INTERCAL chip.
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17 ick.txi:
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18 Master for the Revamped reference manual, a newer manual
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19 independent of the old one.
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20
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21 Note 1: The TeX version we formerly distributed has been dropped. The
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22 combination of groff and pic does an effective job of rendering the
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23 illustrations and is easier to maintain.
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24
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25 Note 2: The supplemental reference manual, ick.txt, has been merged
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26 into the intercal manual. (It is still possible to generate the
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27 original; see the Makefile.)
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28
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29 Note 3: The flat-ASCII directly transcribed from the paper original is
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30 also gone. You can regenerate something very close to it with `make
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31 original.txt'. The differences will be (a) page breaks may fall in
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32 different places, (b) the circuit diagrams present in the paper
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33 version but absent in the ASCII transcription are instead poorly
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34 approximated with ASCII boxology, (c) every "butchered Roman numeral"
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35 is preceded and followed by a line break, (d) the hanging-indent list
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36 of Princeton compiler options has all marks above each description,
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37 rather than to its left.
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38
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39 The aim of these changes was to reduce to one the number of manual masters that
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40 need to be maintained for the original manual, which can both produce the
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41 original INTERCAL-72 manual and the revised version that existed up to about
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42 version 0.18. The revised version proved to be unportable and impractical; it's
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43 still worth a read, but for up-to-date information available in a range of
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44 formats it's worth reading the Revamped manual instead. |
