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1 <HTML>
2 <HEAD>
3 <TITLE>CLC-INTERCAL Reference</TITLE>
4 </HEAD>
5 <BODY>
6 <H1>CLC-INTERCAL Reference</H1>
7
8 <P>
9 Table of Contents
10 <UL>
11 <LI><A HREF="#introduction">Introduction</A>
12 <LI><A HREF="#obtaining">Obtaining CLC-INTERCAL</A>
13 <LI><A HREF="concepts.html">Fundamental Concepts</A>
14 <LI><A HREF="expressions.html">Expressions</A>
15 <LI><A HREF="statements.html">Statements</A>
16 <LI><A HREF="belongs.html">Belongs TO</A>
17 <LI><A HREF="lectures.html">Classes and Lectures</A>
18 <LI><A HREF="input_output.html">Input/Output</A>
19 <LI><A HREF="quantum.html">Quantum INTERCAL</A>
20 <LI><A HREF="internet.html">INTERNET: INTERcal NETworking</A>
21 <LI><A HREF="syscall.html">The System call interface</A>
22 <LI><A HREF="extensions.html">Compiler extensions and optional features</A>
23 <LI><A HREF="parsers.html">Writing compilers for CLC-INTERCAL</A>
24 <LI><A HREF="sick.html">The command-line compiler tool</A>
25 <LI><A HREF="intercalc.html">The INTERCAL calculator</A>
26 <LI><A HREF="errors.html">Errors</A>
27 <LI><A HREF="charset.html">The various character sets supported by CLC-INTERCAL</A>
28 </UL>
29
30 <H2><A NAME="introduction">Introduction</A></H2>
31
32 <P>
33 CLC-INTERCAL was first released as an April fool joke on April 1st,
34 1999. The idea behind the release was to provide a new INTERCAL
35 compiler which could be used as a test-bed for new language ideas,
36 provided one could justify such ideas with the fundamental INTERCAL
37 philosophy of &quot;doing things differently&quot;.
38 </P>
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40 <P>
41 Some features of C-INTERCAL or INTERCAL-72 were thought to be too
42 &quot;normal&quot;, so support for them was made optional. In the
43 current version (1.-94.-2 at the time of writing), such optional
44 features can be enabled by providing command-line options to the
45 compiler tool (see the
46 <A HREF="sick.html">chapter about the command-line compiler tool</A>),
47 or by using the appropriate menus in the calculator (see the
48 <A HREF="intercalc.html">chapter about the INTERCAL calculator</A>).
49 The reference manual
50 will indicate which features are optional and which option enables
51 them. For example, CLC-INTERCAL has always considered NEXT to
52 be an obsolete statement, being just a standard subroutine call,
53 and one enables it by selecting the next option (or by using the
54 ick compatibility mode, which automatically enables this option).
55 </P>
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57 <P>
58 Other optional features are experimental language extensions, or
59 else extensions which, it was felt, are above and beyond the call
60 of insanity, for example the ability to use computed statement
61 labels or the &quot;COME FROM gerund&quot; statement. See
62 <A HREF="extensions.html">the chapter about compiler extensions
63 and optional features</A>.
64 </P>
65
66 <H2><A NAME="obtaining">Obtaining CLC-INTERCAL</A></H2>
67
68 <P>
69 The official sources for CLC-INTERCAL will be normally hosted on
70 <a href=http://intercal.freeshell.org">intercal.freeshell.org</a>;
71 there is normally a mirror using my ISP's servers, see
72 <A HREF="http://intercal.freeshell.org/download/">the CLC-INTERCAL download page</A>.
73 A Debian package for CLC-INTERCAL is provided by Mark Brown, usually at the same
74 time as the official sources, or very soon after. See the
75 <A HREF="http://packages.debian.org/clc-intercal">Debian package description</A>
76 for more details. Packages for other operating systems and/or
77 distributions may be made available in future. Watch this space.
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