eric@snark.uu.net (Eric S. Raymond) (05/05/90)
> I think implementing INTERCAL would not only be an extremely difficult, > But, where shall we find a description ? how shall we write it ? lex/yacc ? > C coding by hand ? Shouldn't we also create comp.lang.INTERCAL ? Over the last two days, I have written most of an INTERCAL-to-C compiler using YACC and LEX. It wasn't hard. But then I'm...uh...pretty good with YACC and LEX. This is not a joke. (Well, INTERCAL is a joke. This announcement isn't). Anybody wanna write a storage-management system for the INTERCAL storage model, or a set of output functions for butchered Roman numerals? That's about all this puppy needs to be usable. Or, at any rate, as usable as INTERCAL is going to get... -- Eric S. Raymond = ...!uunet!snark!eric (mad mastermind of TMN-Netnews)