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3 <TITLE>CLC-INTERCAL Reference</TITLE>
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6 <H1>CLC-INTERCAL Reference</H1>
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9 Table of Contents
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11 <LI><A HREF="#introduction">Introduction</A>
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12 <LI><A HREF="#obtaining">Obtaining CLC-INTERCAL</A>
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13 <LI><A HREF="concepts.html">Fundamental Concepts</A>
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14 <LI><A HREF="expressions.html">Expressions</A>
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15 <LI><A HREF="statements.html">Statements</A>
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16 <LI><A HREF="belongs.html">Belongs TO</A>
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17 <LI><A HREF="lectures.html">Classes and Lectures</A>
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18 <LI><A HREF="input_output.html">Input/Output</A>
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19 <LI><A HREF="quantum.html">Quantum INTERCAL</A>
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20 <LI><A HREF="internet.html">INTERNET: INTERcal NETworking</A>
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21 <LI><A HREF="syscall.html">The System call interface</A>
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22 <LI><A HREF="extensions.html">Compiler extensions and optional features</A>
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23 <LI><A HREF="parsers.html">Writing compilers for CLC-INTERCAL</A>
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24 <LI><A HREF="sick.html">The command-line compiler tool</A>
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25 <LI><A HREF="intercalc.html">The INTERCAL calculator</A>
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26 <LI><A HREF="errors.html">Errors</A>
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27 <LI><A HREF="charset.html">The various character sets supported by CLC-INTERCAL</A>
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28 </UL>
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30 <H2><A NAME="introduction">Introduction</A></H2>
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33 CLC-INTERCAL was first released as an April fool joke on April 1st,
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34 1999. The idea behind the release was to provide a new INTERCAL
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35 compiler which could be used as a test-bed for new language ideas,
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36 provided one could justify such ideas with the fundamental INTERCAL
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37 philosophy of "doing things differently".
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41 Some features of C-INTERCAL or INTERCAL-72 were thought to be too
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42 "normal", so support for them was made optional. In the
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43 current version (1.-94.-2 at the time of writing), such optional
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44 features can be enabled by providing command-line options to the
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45 compiler tool (see the
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46 <A HREF="sick.html">chapter about the command-line compiler tool</A>),
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47 or by using the appropriate menus in the calculator (see the
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48 <A HREF="intercalc.html">chapter about the INTERCAL calculator</A>).
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49 The reference manual
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50 will indicate which features are optional and which option enables
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51 them. For example, CLC-INTERCAL has always considered NEXT to
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52 be an obsolete statement, being just a standard subroutine call,
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53 and one enables it by selecting the next option (or by using the
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54 ick compatibility mode, which automatically enables this option).
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55 </P>
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58 Other optional features are experimental language extensions, or
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59 else extensions which, it was felt, are above and beyond the call
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60 of insanity, for example the ability to use computed statement
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61 labels or the "COME FROM gerund" statement. See
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62 <A HREF="extensions.html">the chapter about compiler extensions
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63 and optional features</A>.
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64 </P>
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66 <H2><A NAME="obtaining">Obtaining CLC-INTERCAL</A></H2>
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69 The official sources for CLC-INTERCAL will be normally hosted on
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70 <a href=http://intercal.freeshell.org">intercal.freeshell.org</a>;
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71 there is normally a mirror using my ISP's servers, see
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72 <A HREF="http://intercal.freeshell.org/download/">the CLC-INTERCAL download page</A>.
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73 A Debian package for CLC-INTERCAL is provided by Mark Brown, usually at the same
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74 time as the official sources, or very soon after. See the
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75 <A HREF="http://packages.debian.org/clc-intercal">Debian package description</A>
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76 for more details. Packages for other operating systems and/or
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77 distributions may be made available in future. Watch this space.
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